Which of the following statement/s regarding Indo European Family of Languages is/are not true? 1.…
Statements 1 and 2 are not true. Proto-Indo-European is the reconstructed common ancestor of the family, rather than another name for the family itself; Sanskrit and Latin…
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Which of the following statement/s regarding Indo European Family of Languages is/are not true?
1. Indo-European family is also known as Proto-Indo European.
2. Sanskrit in the East and Latin in the West are the earliest Independent Indo-European languages.
3. Indo-European family includes the Germanic branch.
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Correct answer A
Statements 1 and 2 are not true. Proto-Indo-European is the reconstructed common ancestor of the family, rather than another name for the family itself; Sanskrit and Latin are not its earliest attested languages, since Hittite and early Greek provide older attestations than Latin. Germanic is a branch of the Indo-European family.
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