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| Armenian |
the Indo-European language of Armenia. [1/3 definitions] |
| Aryan |
a person belonging to or claiming to be a descendant of the prehistoric peoples who spoke the hypothetical parent language of Indo-Europeans. [1/4 definitions] |
| Baltic |
of, designating, or pertaining to a group of Indo-European languages that includes Lithuanian and Old Prussian. [1/2 definitions] |
| Celt |
a member of any of the Indo-European peoples whose language is Celtic, such as the Irish, Scottish Highlanders, Welsh, or Bretons, or a descendant thereof. |
| Celtic |
a group of Indo-European languages that includes Irish and Scots Gaelic and Manx in one branch and the Brythonic languages in another. [1/2 definitions] |
| Indic |
of or pertaining to the subgroup of Indo-European languages spoken in India, Ceylon, and Pakistan, such as Hindi or Bengali. [1/2 definitions] |
| Indo-European |
of or pertaining to persons whose native language is Indo-European. [2/5 definitions] |
| Indo-Hittite |
a language family that includes, and is considered to be a forerunner of, Indo-European and Anatolian. |
| Indo-Iranian |
a subgroup of the Indo-European family of languages that includes Farsi, Kurdish, and the languages of the Indian subcontinent. |
| Iranian |
a group of Indo-European languages that includes Persian and Kurdish. [1/4 definitions] |
| italic |
(cap.) a branch of related Indo-European languages that includes Latin and the modern Romance languages. [1/4 definitions] |
| non-Indo-European |
combined form of Indo-European. |
| Pashto |
an Iranian language of Indo-European origin that is the main vernacular of eastern Afghanistan and parts of western Pakistan. |
| P-Celtic |
a branch of the Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton, in which a "p" sound replaced the Proto-Indo-European "kw" sound. |
| Proto-Indo-European |
see "Indo-European." |
| Q-Celtic |
the branch of the Celtic languages that includes Gaelic and Irish Gaelic, in which a "k" sound replaced the Proto-Indo-European "kw" sound. |
| Sanskrit |
an ancient Indic language that is the classic literary language of India and an important basis for the development of comparative Indo-European linguistics. |
| Slavic |
a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes languages of parts of Russia, eastern Europe, and south central Europe, such as Ukrainian, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian. [1/2 definitions] |
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