Place the languages in the order in which they arrived in Europe.

Responses

Germanic

Latin

Proto-Indo-European

Indo-European Slavic

1 answer

To order the languages based on their arrival in Europe, we can follow the historical and linguistic timeline:

  1. Proto-Indo-European - This is the hypothesized ancestor of the Indo-European language family and is believed to have been spoken thousands of years ago, before the divergence of the various Indo-European languages.

  2. Indo-European - Following Proto-Indo-European, the various branches of the Indo-European family began to spread across Europe.

  3. Latin - As the Roman Empire expanded, Latin became prevalent in the territories it conquered, including much of Western Europe.

  4. Germanic - The Germanic languages began to emerge and spread across Northern Europe, especially after the fall of the Roman Empire, around the 1st century AD and onwards.

  5. Slavic - The Slavic languages developed later, around the 6th century AD, as a distinct branch of the Indo-European family, becoming prominent in Eastern Europe.

So the order is:

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Indo-European
  3. Latin
  4. Germanic
  5. Indo-European Slavic (referring specifically to Slavic languages)