Question

Using the Indo-European Family Tree, select the nine MAIN branches of languages.

indo-european family tree

Gothic
Indian
Germanic
Hindustani
Anatolic
Celtic
Iranian
Balto-Slavic
Hellenic
Latin
Italic
Gaelic
Albanian

Answer 1

The nine main branches of the Indo-European language family are:

1. **Germanic** (includes languages such as English, German, Dutch, Gothic, etc.)
2. **Celtic** (includes languages such as Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, etc.)
3. **Italic** (includes languages such as Latin and its descendants like Spanish, French, Italian, etc.)
4. **Hellenic** (primarily Greek)
5. **Balto-Slavic** (includes languages such as Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, etc.)
6. **Iranian** (includes languages such as Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, etc.)
7. **Indian** (often referred to as Indo-Aryan; includes languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, etc.)
8. **Anatolic** (includes languages such as Hittite)
9. **Albanian** (referring to the Albanian language)

Hindustani, while an important language, is a term that refers to a specific linguistic area encompassing Hindi and Urdu. It's not considered a separate branch but part of the Indian languages.