Are Indian languages similar to European?
There are hundreds of distinct languages in India, from two main families, Dravidian and Indo-European. Malayalam is Dravidian and Hindi is Indo-European, so they are not only different languages but unrelated ones.
How are Indian and European languages related?
All Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime in the Neolithic era. By the time the first written records appeared, Indo-European had already evolved into numerous languages spoken across much of Europe and south-west Asia.
What are similarities between Indo-European languages?
Shared characteristics. The chief reason for grouping the Indo-European languages together is that they share a number of items of basic vocabulary, including grammatical affixes, whose shapes in the different languages can be related to one another by statable phonetic rules.
What languages have similarities?
Lexical similarity can be used to evaluate the degree of genetic relationship between two languages. Percentages higher than 85\% usually indicate that the two languages being compared are likely to be related dialects….Indo-European languages.
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How closely related are Indian languages?
In india, majority of languages spoken are from two branches of language. Indo Iranian languages are mainly spoken in North India and includes Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi etc. Being from the same branch of language, most of the North Indian regional language is similar to Hindi.
Are most Indian languages similar?
Majority of Indian languages have originated from two language families, namely, Indo-European and Dravidian. Also, languages spoken in neighboring regions show certain similarity since there happens to be a lot of intermingling between population of neighboring regions.