印欧语系的起源及特点

比较语言学将人类语言分为29个语系，印欧语系是其中影响最大、分布最广的语系之一。印欧语系包括10个语族，50多种语言。印欧语系以北欧为中心向欧洲大陆东、西两端延伸，在南亚次大陆及非洲南端等地区也有分布。从进化论的角度分析，印欧语系的祖先可能是库尔干人、盖尔·凯尔特人、亚利安人或土耳其人。印欧语系的辅音系统的发音方式主要有爆破音、鼻音、延续音和半辅音，其发音部位主要有唇、齿、硬腭和软腭。

The Origins and Features of Indo-European Language Family

There are twenty-nine language Families in the world according to Comparative Linguistics.Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widely distributed language families including ten language phyla and more than fifty written characters.It spreads to east and west ends in the center of north Europe in the European continent and it also distributes in Indian sub-continent and the south part of Africa continent.Kurgan,Gael-Celt,Aryan,or Turkish may be the ancestor of Indo-European language family according to the perspectives of evolution theory.The consonant system of Indo-European language mainly consists by explodents,nasals,prolonged consonant and half-consonants in terns of manners of articulation and the places of articulation include lips,teeth,hard palate,and velum.