Feb 08 2008
Indoeuropean Language Tree
I came across this somewhere on the wide world of the Internet–I don’t remember where–and I thought it was interesting. I like things like this, maps and charts and whatnot about languages.
A while back I posted a map of the languages in Europe. This one is an Indo-European language “family tree.” Looks kinda neat don’t you think? It’s interesting how this group of languages is just a tiny branch in the huge tree of language.
This is a great graphic. Thanks for sharing it. But there’s one glaring omission….Portuguese!! Where is it? I don’t see it anywhere on this tree. I guess the artist ran out of space and branches!
Oh well, it’s still a great visual.
I don’t see Basque either, but some argue that it’s not even Indo-European.