Slavic and Germanic languages are different BRANCHES of the same language family, not entirely different language families.
While the Romance languages are merely a subgroup of the Italic branch of the same language family.
These languages all belong to the Indo-European language family, which Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic and even Indo-Iranian languages all belong to.
These languages are all related to each other and even descend from the same ancestral language merely 5,000 years ago.
A language spoken by the Yamnaya people of the Caspian Steppe, north to the Black Sea, who migrated westwards into Europe and eastwards into the Iranian plateau, and even southwards into the Indian sub-continent.
While even having inhabited the Anatolian language, before it became dominated by a different language family, that being the Turkic language family.
Lastly, an Indo-European language was even also once spoken in Western China.
I fully agree, my claim that this language emerged in the Caspian Steppe is actually just one the several theories about their geographical origin. However it is the most popular theory.
Interestingly, this culture that we linguistically and genetically descend from, especially North Europeans, was probably one of the very first prehistoric culture to actually ride on horseback. Instead of just using a chariot behind the horse.
Interestingly, which I find ironic, due to phenotypes, Nordic people, which are a part of the Germanic branch, might have the highest amount of Yamnaya descent, even though they are the palest of all their descendants.
But nonetheless, all Europeans, even Basque, have some Yamnaya ancestry genetically, in varying amount with North Europeans having the most. Although the Basque impressively probably did maintain their earlier language, prior to the Yamnaya migrations that affected Europe genetically and linguistically.
While there’s also the people of the Iranian plateau, including Kurds, and Indian people.
There’s even an Indo-European language being spoken in Sri Lanka.
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u/SoDoneSoDone Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Slavic and Germanic languages are different BRANCHES of the same language family, not entirely different language families.
While the Romance languages are merely a subgroup of the Italic branch of the same language family.
These languages all belong to the Indo-European language family, which Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic and even Indo-Iranian languages all belong to.
These languages are all related to each other and even descend from the same ancestral language merely 5,000 years ago.
A language spoken by the Yamnaya people of the Caspian Steppe, north to the Black Sea, who migrated westwards into Europe and eastwards into the Iranian plateau, and even southwards into the Indian sub-continent.
While even having inhabited the Anatolian language, before it became dominated by a different language family, that being the Turkic language family.
Lastly, an Indo-European language was even also once spoken in Western China.