Does anybody know the origin of Indo-European languages (like mother-tongue?

Question

where did they come from, which other languages provided the bricks to it so to speak

both sanskrit and Latin belong to the indoeuropean languages group.

DISCOVERY OF DRAVIDIAN
AS THE COMMON SOURCE OF
INDO-EUROPEAN


A Linguistic Monograph



V. Keerthi Kumar

www.datanumeric.com/dravidian/index.html. if you have time and inclination can you go to the above address and check it out and comment on it, Mr.Taivo and others.

Answer 1

Proto Indo-European is a hypothetically reconstructed language based on linguistic research using the comparative method. Although it is widely accepted by linguists to have existed, its details are open to debate. Sanskrit and Latin are both descendants of Proto Indo-European.
Some linguists have proposed relationships to other early reconstructed languages, but these proposals are controversial and difficult to prove.
Some linguists argue for the existence of Proto-World, the common ancestor of all human languages, but this also has come under heavy criticism because of lack of evidence.
Basically there is no language or languages which can be proven to be the origin of Proto Indo European. The oldest attested written languages, Sumerian and Egyptian, are not related to the Indo-European languages.

EDIT: Although this monograph puts forward the notion that Dravidian is the ancestor of Indo-European, this argument is not widely accepted by the linguistic community. It could be that the similarities between the two are due to both languages having been in close contact for hundred of years (Dravidian languages are spoken in southern India, where Hindi, an Indo-European language is also widely spoken). It is a well documented fact that languages in close contact geographically often take on features of the other language. A good example is in Ethiopia, where Amharic and Tigre, which are both Semitic languages, have changed the word order from Verb-Subject-Object (the default for Semitic), to Subject-Object-Verb, due to contact with other African languages.

Answer 2

Indo-European languages are thought to have evolved from Proto-Indo-European, which was reconstructed via the comparative method. Proto-Indo-European then evolved into such languages as Sanskrit, Latin, and the similarly reconstructed Proto-Germanic. Over time, as populations separated, these languages changed, and became the modern Indo-European languages that we recognise today. This explains certain similarities that can be found in, for example, modern Gujarati and modern English. The origins of Proto-Indo-European itself, however, are unclear and are likely to remain so (see Taivo's response below). As for the question about the Dravidian language family, as far as I am aware, the Dravidian languages are unrelated to the Indo-European language family and are therefore unlikely candidates for the origin of Indo-European languages (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Answer 3

Given modern linguistic techniques, it is impossible to trace language origins and relationships back beyond about 8-10 thousand years ago. Languages existed before then, of course, and those languages evolved in the same ways that modern languages evolve, but we just can't trace the relationships, that is, what language family is related to what other language family. The reasons are technical. But since Proto-Indo-European was spoken 6-8 thousand years ago, it is on the edge of that barrier and we can probably never know what other language families it is related to. Most linguists believe that language had a single origin about 100 thousand years ago in Africa, but because of the way language changes it will be impossible to reconstruct that ancestor tongue or to know how all the languages of the world are related to one another.

Answer 4

Latin & sanskrit are the origin of Indo-European Languages.

Answer 5

thats a very good point.
so maybe indo european languages were made up by people who were poor speakers of the then flourishing languages like sumerian and egyptian.

Answer 6

sanskrit and latin

Answer 7

SANSKRIT