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The Indo-European language family

What is the Indo-European language family? Watch this video by Dr. Tijmen Pronk to find out.

Our first lesson is about the Indo-European language family. What is a language family? And which languages belong to the Indo-European language family? Watch the video above to find out. Then mark this step as complete and click “next” to continue.

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Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

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