What language did English originate from? - Proto-indo-european, When did the discovery of the PIE language take place? - 1700s, What did scholars encounter before discovering? - Sanskrit, Within which language family did a sound change from "p" to "f" happen? - Germanic language family , What did give scholars the ability to recreate the original PIE language? - Discovering of the various sound changes , Where was the PIE language spoken? - It`s a matter of debate but the scholars consider North of the Black See and the Caspian See to be the place where it was spoken (modern Russia and Ukraine)., Which tribe is considered to be the first indo-europeans? - Yamnaya, Why can we surely define the end of the period of the PIE language? - We know that it`s the mother language so once we have the daughter languages in place, we understand that we are beyond the period of the original proto-language , What can we say about the true nature the modern european languages? - They are all part of a shared family and they did all evolve out of a common set of dialects or manner of speaking,

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