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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Indo-European language family considered from the viewpoint that Proto-Indo-European as traditionally reconstructed is the sister and not the ancestor of Anatolian.
- noun The hypothetical parent language of Indo-European and Anatolian.
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- proper noun linguistics a
hypothetical language family where theAnatolian languages and theIndo-European languages are separatebranches
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- noun the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
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Examples
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My Indo-Europeanist instincts immediately try to connect it with the stem *mer- 'to die' or Indo-Hittite 'to disappear'.
Problems with Etruscan inscription TLE 890 (or with Etruscologists) 2007
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Brian, the "Indo-Hittite" concept (that Hittite split off early from a family that only later became Indo-European) is passed from the scene with the (untimely) death of Warren Cowgill.
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Having studied with Cowgill, I'll probably never get Indo-Hittite out of my head.
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Look for Southern Anatolian and Northern Anatolian as separate Indo-European Dialects and Antolian as a late linguistic Zone in Greater Anatolian and the Indo-Hittite Family, ed.
Diachrony of PIE 2008
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That is to say, beside Indo-European and Indo-Hittite, there must have existed an Indo-Slurvian.
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