ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

ECONOMICS

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where did European languages come from?
A
Ancient Canadian people who lived in Central Asia more than 5, 000 years
B
Ancient United States people who lived in Central Asia more than 5, 000 years
C
Ancient Indo-European people who lived in Central Asia more than 5, 000 years
D
Ancient Latin America people who lived in Central Asia more than 5, 000 years
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The western Indo-European languages (Germanic, Celtic, Italic) probably spread into Europe from the Balkan-Danubian complex, a set of cultures in Southeastern Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The majority view in historical linguistics is that the homeland of the Indo-European language family was located in the Pontic steppes (present day Ukraine) around 6000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hittite (c. 1700–1200 BC). This is the earliest-recorded of all Indo-European languages, and highly divergent from the others due to the early separation of the Anatolian languages from the remainder.

Detailed explanation-4: -It postulates that the people of a Kurgan culture in the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea were the most likely speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). The term is derived from the Russian kurgan (́), meaning tumulus or burial mound.

Detailed explanation-5: -This new study challenges one of the most popular views about the origin of Indo-European languages in Europe, which is that the ancestor of all these languages arrived in Europe with early farmers expanding from the Near East more than 9, 000 years ago.

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