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Backward reconstruction |
The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of constants backward toward the original language. |
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Conquest theory |
One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of of Indo-European tongues. |
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Creole language |
A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue. |
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Deep reconstruction |
Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that proceeded the extinct language. |
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Dialect chains |
A set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related |
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Dialects |
Local or regional characteristics of a language. |
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Dispersal hypothesis
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Hypothesis which holds that the Indo-European languages that arose from Proto-Indo-European were first carried eastward into Southwest Asia, next around the Caspian Sea, and then across the Russian-Ukrainian plains and onto the Balkans
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Extinct language
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Language without any native speakers
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