Indo-European languages

• Indo-Iranian
  • Iranian
    • Avestan
    • Old Persian -> Modern Persian
  • Indic
    • Sanskrit and Prakrits -> Romany, Bengali, Hindi
• Armenian
• Balto-Slavic
  • Baltic -> Prussian, Lettish, Lithuanian
  • Slavic
    • West -> Polish, Czecho-Slovak
    • South -> Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian
    • East -> Russian
• Albanian
• Celtic -> Gallic
  • Gaelic -> Old Irish (-> Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Manx)
  • Brittanic -> Old Welsh (-> Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Pictish)
• Germanic
  • North (Old Norse) -> Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish
  • East -> Gothic
  • West
    • Anglo-Frisian
      • Old Frisian
      • Old English
        • Mercian -gt; Midland Dialect -> East Midland Dialect -> Early Modern English -> Modern English
        • Northumbrian -> Northern Dialect -> Lowland Scots
        • Kentish
        • West Saxon -> Southern Dialect -> Dorsetshire Dialect
    • German
      • Low -> Old Saxon -> Plattdeutsch, Old Low Franconian (-> Dutch, Flemish)
      • High -> Modern Standard German
• Italic
  • Oscan
  • Umbrian
  • Latin
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
    • Old French -> Norman French, Modern French
    • Italian
    • Roumanian
• Hellenic
  • Doric
  • Aeolic
  • Ionic-Attic -> Greek (Koine)
• Hittite
• Tocharian

Based on Jeanne H. Herndon, "Relations of some Indo-European Languages with Detail of English Dialects" in Language: Introductory Readings, Clark, Eschholz, Rosa (eds.), St. Martin (1985)

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