CCI 502: Latin among the Indo-European Languages

    The Main Indo-European Language Families

    Indo-Iranian

    Armenian

    Albanian

    Greek

    Italic

    Celtic

    Germanic

    Balto-Slavic



    Table of Classicfication: Indo-European Languages and Their Descendants

    Family Subdivisions Ancient Languages (Less) Ancient Languages Modern Descendants
    Indo-Iranian

    Indic

    Iranian

    Sanscrit

    Old Persian

    Pali
    Prakrit

    Pahlavi
    Sacian

    Bengali
    Hindi
    Marathi

    Farsi
    Kurdish
    Afghan
    Armenian      

    Old Armenian

    Armenian
    Albanian         

    Albanian
    Greek

    East Greek

    West Greek

    Attic-Ionic

    Doric

    Koiné

    Modern Greek
    Italic

    Latino-Faliscan

    Oscan-Umbrian

    Latin
    Faliscan

    Oscan
    Umbrian
    Volsican, etc.

    Vulgar Latin

    French
    Provencal
    Catalan
    Spanish
    Portugese
    Italian
    Romanian
    Celtic



    Gaelic

    Brittanic
    Continental

    		   

      
    Celtic Inscriptions



    Old Irish

    Old Welsh
    Old Cornish
    Old Breton

    Irish
    Scotch Gaelic
    Manx

    Welsh
    Breton
      
    Germanic North Germanic
    West Germanic

    Anglo-Frisian

    Germanic

    Old Norse

    Old English
    Old Frisian
    Old High German

    Swedish
    Danish
    norwegian
    Icelandic

    English
    Frisian
    Dutch
    German
    Balto-Slavic

    Baltic

    Slavic

      

    South Slavic
    West Slavic
    East Slavic

      

    Old Church Slavic  
    Polabian


    Lithuanian

    Serbo-Croatian
    Polish
    Russian
    Ukranian

    Source: C. D. Buck, Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar. NB: This chart is somewhat outdated, and takes no account of Hittite; it is intended only to give a general idea of Latin's place among the IE languages. For an up-to-date, accessible introduction to comparative and historical linguistics, see R.S.P. Beekes, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics.