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Published: 18.06.2004.
Language: English
Level: College/University
Literature: 3 units
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  • Essays 'English as an Indo-European Language', 1.
  • Essays 'English as an Indo-European Language', 2.
  • Essays 'English as an Indo-European Language', 3.
  • Essays 'English as an Indo-European Language', 4.
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This paper is dedicated to English language. This topic was chosen because it is interesting.
As we know, there are great communities of languages, called families. Most European languages and several Asian belong to one of the families, Indo-European (exceptions are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, and Livonian, which are Uralic). English is certainly one of them.
Languages of any group are distinct because of divergence. This is a process when a language splits into several: people who formerly spoke one language stop to understand each other. Of course, it takes long time i.e. hundreds and thousands years. So protolanguage may split several times. As a result, a lot of modern speeches are related to few protolanguages.…

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