The Indo-European languages are connected through a shared parent language, known as Proto-Indo-European, from which they all descended. This connection is established by identifying similarities in basic vocabulary and grammatical affixes across different languages, which can be linked through phonetic rules. The timing of this split is still hotly debated by linguists and others.
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