Hi syzygy,

This is indeed a very small world...............I wish more people understood this.

In Indian languages, and the following we speak fluently or in patches, depending on the extent of interaction with the different communities that live in India..........Gujrati, Marathi, the national language-Hindi, Punjabi, baba is used to fondly call out to a small child............

I have read on Indo-European languages, although in a very patchy way.....................and the most dynamic word, atleast one of the most common sounding word is:

mother>>>> maa, mata, in Indian languages........mader, in Iranian, mutter in German,..................la mere in French........mama in Spanish and momma/ mama-mia in Italian.

King can be found in the very ancient Indo-European Avestan-Gathic (the very oldest Persian) as Kai;

the ancients seem to have a very common word for victory..............a very clear indication we loved then to war and win!!!

victory>>>> vairya in Avestan, vir in Sanskrit, vijay in later Indian languages.

Indo-European languages are divided into CENTUM and SATEM languages .....................see CENTUM languages and SATEM Languages

Very fascinating to see that in the Centum group, English is a descendant of the Germanic branch whilst Welsh and Cornish are from the Celtic branch!!!

Funny, but Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language ..see Finno-Ugric languages but obviously the Indo European and Finno Ugric are bound to be related as well because of their close proximity.

The world is indeed a small family.

geveN