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

• August Wilhelm SchlegelRelated: Schlegel’s work helped draw attention to structural and historical comparisons among these languages.

• Estonian languageCompared with: Most neighboring national languages belong to this family, unlike Estonian.

• Gothic languageNarrower topic: Gothic belongs to this family through its Germanic ancestry.

• Proto-Indo-European homelandNarrower topic: Their shared features provide the comparative evidence from which a common ancestor is reconstructed.

• Tarim mummiesCompared with: Language-family labels do not establish the identity or speech of Bronze Age individuals.

• Anatolian languagesNarrower topic: Anatolian is one of its earliest-attested branches.

• Latvian languageNarrower topic: Latvian’s deeper ancestry and many inherited grammatical features come from this family.

• Nostratic languagesRelated: Nostratic proposals commonly place Indo-European within the macrofamily.

• Scandinavian languagesNarrower topic: Germanic, the broader family of Scandinavian languages, is one branch of it.

• Aryan raceNarrower topic: A linguistic relationship among languages does not establish a biological race or a hierarchy.

• LexicostatisticsBroader topic: Lexical comparison has been applied to its branches, though detailed reconstruction depends on regular correspondences.

• Slavic peoplesNarrower topic: Slavic languages belong to this larger family, beyond the ethnolinguistic grouping.

• Language divergenceBroader topic: Its branches illustrate how prolonged separation produces distinct languages from shared ancestry.

• SlavsNarrower topic: Slavic languages belong to this larger family and share deeper linguistic ancestry with its other branches.

• Steppe hypothesisNarrower topic: The proposed migrations explain how this family became geographically widespread.

• Bedřich HroznýNarrower topic: Hittite’s grammar provided decisive evidence for classifying it in this family.

• Colin RenfrewNarrower topic: Renfrew’s origin theory addresses how this language family spread.

• Indo-Aryan peoplesNarrower topic: Indo-Aryan languages form one branch of this wider family.

• TochariansNarrower topic: Tocharian is a distinctive branch whose eastern location reshaped ideas about Indo-European dispersal.

• BurushaskiCompared with: Burushaski is surrounded by Indo-European languages but is not established as one of them.

• HittitologyNarrower topic: Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language, making it vital to comparative study.

• Slavic third palatalizationNarrower topic: Proto-Slavic belongs to this family, whose reconstruction provides deeper historical context.

• Sun Language TheoryCompared with: Its evidence-based reconstruction contrasts with the theory’s claim that Turkish generated unrelated language families.

• Georges DumézilRelated: Shared linguistic ancestry supplied the historical framework for comparing the traditions in his studies.

• Culture of EuropeNarrower topic: Its branches include many of Europe’s major language groups, though not all European languages belong to it.

• Osthoff's lawNarrower topic: The law is reported in Greek and other branches of this family.