Why did so many languages develop in Europe?

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The language diversity in Europe is pretty low. The highest language diversity is in New Guinea, where...

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Are Welsh and Irish the only non-Indo-European languages in Europe?

My friend told me that Welsh and Irish are not Indo-European. I can actually understand that because they don't sound or look anything like Indo-European languages. And we all know that Welsh and Irish are not related to English, which is an Indo-European...

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Welsh and Irish are both Celtic languages and all Celtic languages are Indo-European languages. See...

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Are Welsh and Irish the only non-Indo-European languages in Europe?

My friend told me that Welsh and Irish are not Indo-European. I can actually understand that because they don't sound or look anything like Indo-European languages. And we all know that Welsh and Irish are not related to English, which is an Indo-European...

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They ARE Indo-European languages. These are the subdivisions of Indo-European languages of Europe: Albanian...

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Besides Basque, any trace of pre-Indo-European languages of Europe remaining?

Euskara (and its Aquitanian ancestors) is famous for being a curious wrinkle in the Indo-European tapestry of languages blanketing Europe today. Did any other non-IE European language leave evidence of its existence in history? Perhaps words in today...

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The Etruscan of pre-Roman Italy is considered a language isolate. Classification The majority consensus...

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Why are we not seeing many B2C tech companies in India that develop solutions in Indian  vernacular languages?

There is a large population in India that is very comfortable with their local languages and they are getting tech. savvy by the day. Why don't we see many companies that develop solutions around proven ideas in the B2C tech space , but offer them in...

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This is quite intuitive in my opinion: a majority of Indian internet users, and almost all users who...

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Europe - Where are more official languages used? EU or Schengen?

Where are more official languages used - in the EU or in the countries of the Schengen agreement? Which languages are used in the EU but not in the Schengen area? Which languages are used in the Schengen area but not in the EU?

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The Schengen area is mostly within the EU, with only a few countries that are outside the EU. The EU...

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Are there any other languages in Europe that have the same counting system as Basque?

Like "hogei" (twenty) in Basque literally means "one twenty", and then to say thirty you say "hogeita hamar"; literally "one twenty and ten". Forty is "two twenty", and fifty is "two twenty and ten...

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The system of counting by adding numbers can also be found in French. ninety = quatre-vingt-dix Basque...

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Are JVM based languages that offer Functional Programming style (e.g., Clojure, Scala) more popular in the US than Europe?

I am a UK based recruiter. One of my pet projects is to to review the many jobs available online both here in Europe and the US. I have no empirical data to support this, but gut feeling is there is far more roles with JVM based languages offering functional...

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In order to answer this properly one would have to do the statistics - and then you would realise that...

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How did languages/dialects develop as "rhotic" or "non-rhotic"?

And sometimes one style or the other is looked down upon? Northern European languages (including British English) are mostly non-rhotic, but Romance/Slavic/Semitic languages seem to be the opposite. Even in America different regions can't agree on this...

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How do languages develop inflections?

I know that languages tend to get simpler (that is, less inflected) over time. For example, Latin's extensive system of case inflections was lost in its daughter languages, and ...show more

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Thou dost evince much perplexity As this is apparently your very first Question on Y/As I bid you welcome...

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