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The 76 pages that link to Indo-European languages, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsBroader topic: Its reconstruction is the classic large-scale application of comparative linguistics.

• SanskritNarrower topic: Sanskrit’s relationship to this family helped establish comparative historical linguistics.

• Russian languageNarrower topic: Russian belongs to this family through its Slavic branch.

• Language familyBroader topic: Its branches and reconstructed ancestor illustrate how a large family is studied.

• LatinNarrower topic: Latin is one branch of this family, sharing inherited features with distant languages.

• Indo-Aryan languagesNarrower topic: Indo-Aryan languages ultimately belong to this large family.

• Greek languageNarrower topic: Greek's vocabulary and grammar place it within this wider family.

• Turkic languagesCompared with: Its historical classification offers a useful contrast to debates over Turkic’s proposed wider relatives.

• Proto-Indo-European languageNarrower topic: Proto-Indo-European is the reconstructed ancestor from which this family developed.

• Slavic languagesNarrower topic: Slavic is one branch of this larger family.

• Indo-European migrationsNarrower topic: The distribution of its branches is the principal historical pattern migration models seek to explain.

• Comparative linguisticsBroader topic: Their classification is a landmark result of comparative study.

• Iranian languagesNarrower topic: This broader family provides the deepest commonly accepted ancestry for Iranian languages.

• PaliNarrower topic: Pali’s deeper ancestry lies in the Indo-European family through its Indo-Aryan branch.

• Proto-Indo-EuropeansNarrower topic: Their distribution is the historical outcome that homeland and migration models seek to explain.

• Romance languagesNarrower topic: Romance is one branch within this wider family.

• Celtic languagesNarrower topic: Celtic languages form one branch within this wider family.

• Semitic languagesCompared with: It is a separate major family, despite extensive historical contact with Semitic languages.

• Germanic languagesNarrower topic: Germanic languages form one of its major branches.

• Pontic–Caspian steppeNarrower topic: Proposed prehistoric dispersals from steppe populations may help explain its broad distribution.

• Yamnaya cultureNarrower topic: The Yamnaya are often linked to the spread of early Indo-European languages, though archaeology alone cannot identify a language.

• Indo-Iranian languagesNarrower topic: Indo-Iranian is one of this family's major branches.

• Proto-GermanicNarrower topic: Proto-Germanic is one branch of this larger family.

• South Slavic languagesNarrower topic: South Slavic languages ultimately belong to this broad genealogical family.

• William JonesBroader topic: Jones’s proposed relationship helped identify this family as a historical unit.

• Hungarian languageCompared with: Hungarian’s Uralic ancestry differs from that of most neighboring European languages.

• Kurgan hypothesisNarrower topic: The hypothesis offers a geographic and migratory account of their spread.

• Franz BoppRelated: These languages supplied the evidence for Bopp’s comparative analyses.

• Hittite languageNarrower topic: Hittite belongs to this family and preserves some of its earliest written evidence.

• Indo-European studiesNarrower topic: The family is the central linguistic object whose history the discipline investigates.

• LoanwordCompared with: Shared inherited vocabulary in this family must be distinguished from words later borrowed between its languages.

• Indo-Aryan migrationNarrower topic: The Indo-Aryan branch belongs to this broader family, whose dispersal frames migration hypotheses.

• Iranian peoplesNarrower topic: The deeper linguistic family context links Iranian languages to a much wider history.

• Altaic languagesRelated: Its evidence offers a useful comparison for the standards applied to proposed language families.

• Anatolian hypothesisNarrower topic: The hypothesis proposes a Neolithic route for the family’s geographic expansion.

• Latin grammarNarrower topic: Latin grammar preserves features inherited from the wider Indo-European family.

• Friedrich SchlegelRelated: His Sanskrit comparisons contributed to recognizing affinities across this family.

• Indo-European linguisticsNarrower topic: The full family is the comparative scope from which this historical discipline takes its subject.

• Lithuanian languageNarrower topic: Lithuanian belongs to this family and preserves some archaic features.

• Rasmus RaskNarrower topic: Rask’s comparisons helped clarify how Germanic languages relate to this wider family.

• Tocharian languagesNarrower topic: Tocharian is a distinct branch within this reconstructed family.

• Albanian languageNarrower topic: Albanian’s place in this family is distinctive: it forms a branch of its own.

• August SchleicherNarrower topic: Schleicher sought to reconstruct and classify this family’s earlier stages.

• AvestanNarrower topic: Avestan’s distant linguistic relatives belong to this larger family.

• Indo-European ablautNarrower topic: Its branches preserve different traces of the ancestral vowel alternations.

• East Slavic languagesNarrower topic: The Slavic family, including East Slavic, belongs to this wider family.

• Evolution of languagesBroader topic: Its extensive documentation makes it a central case for studying language diversification.

• Indo-European sound lawsNarrower topic: The laws organize correspondences across this family and its branches.

• Sound correspondenceRelated: Comparisons across its branches revealed extensive recurring sound correspondences.

• West Slavic languagesNarrower topic: The Slavic languages, including West Slavic, belong to this wider family.