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The Prehistory of Indo-European: A Summary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Edgar H. Sturtevant
Edgar H. Sturtevant*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Extract

Writing in 1875, William Dwight Whitney refers to the Indo-European family of languages as more clearly drawn than most; but, he continues, some additions may yet be made to it, as perhaps Albanian and Etruscan. His list did not include Armenian, Phrygian, or Thracian, and it included Illyrian only as the possible predecessor of Albanian.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 28 , Issue 2-Part1: April-June , June 1952, pp. 177 - 181
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Copyright © 1952 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Life and growth of language 187 f.

2 Einleitung in die Geschichte der griechischen Sprache (Göttingen, 1896).

3 See my fuller treatment in Lg. 15.13–9 (1939).

4 Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes (Paris, 1879).

5 See Speiser, Lg. 16.319–40 (1940); Introduction to Hurrian 35–51, 61 f. (New Haven, 1941).

6 Cf. Messing, Glotta 31.247–50 (1951).

7 BSL 32.1–28 (1931).

8 Lg. 24.259–61 (1948).

9 But see those listed in Lg. 14.239–42 (1938).