INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

are a group of languages with certain characteristics in common, and otherwise called Aryan, or Indo-Germanic. The following are the Indo-European languages: A., the so-called Centum group— (1) Greek, (2) Italic, (8) Celtic, (4) Germanic or Teutonic (including Swedish; Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, English Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, German); (including Sanskrit, Zend, and Old Persian), (2) Armenian, (3), Balto-Slavonia group (including Old Bulgarian, Ruse: sian, Servian, Polish), (4) Albanian. The resemblances between these lane: guages of Europe and Asia force on our attention the problem of their hist. connection, their relation to the original language, and the original land of the parent race. Round these problems there have been long and divers controversies. Some claim the East as the orignal home of the languages; others claim the West; the claims for the Hast being older. ‘The obviously great antiquity of the language of the Hindus was the basis on which the theories of an FKastern origin were built. Linguistic evidence seemed to point to Central. Asia, as the original home of the parent race. But claims began to be put forward for Europe, and various tracts were suggested as the original home, «.g., South Ru ia, West Germany, the region of the Baltic, and Scand in a via. The inhabitants of Hurope may be divided into two distinct cla es—the dolichocephalic and the brachycephalic, and the pivot of the problem is ultimately. which of these two cla es is the Aryan. Modern opinion seems to favor the dolichocephalic race; or, to be more exact, European civilization and culture are regarded as derived from the Aryan race, the tall, fair, dolichocephalic peoples most purely represented today by the English, Germans, and Scandinavjans. This theory is technically called Aryanism, be found in Malaysia, etc. native state, Central India; consists of various islolated tracts; capital, Indore; commercial centre. Pop. c. 850,000.