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Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed proto-language for the Indo-European language family

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Etymology of Ancient Greek interrogative particle ἆρα

Warning: I am not a linguist! This post is essentially a long comment on French’s use of est-ce que and your exclusion of it because “it’s a whole phrase”. I think est-ce que in modern French is not …
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How different were Proto-Italic and Proto-Germanic?

As you noticed, there is something common between modern Romance and Germanic languages which is not shared by other Indo-European languages. It does not come from their ancestral languages (Latin and …
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