Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

In this episode, we're going to look at the emergence of the Germanic tribes, the early

Greek speakers, the first Latin-speaking tribes in Italy, and the Celtic tribes in Central

and Western Europe.

So we're going to begin a shift from the original Indo-Europeans to the various daughter languages

which directly influenced the development of English.

But before I begin this episode, let me address a couple of housekeeping matters.

First, I've not mentioned the website or the email address for the podcast lately, so

let me do that.

The website address is historyofenglishpodcast.com, and my email address is Kevin at History

of EnglishPodcast.com, and I've also started a Twitter account for the podcast, and that's

English-HistPod.

So with all of that out of the way, let's turn to this episode.

Last time, I looked at the factors which led to the emergence of the first Indo-Europeans

in Eurasia, and the early expansion of some of those people into modern day Turkey and

Western China.

I now want to focus on the early linguistic ancestors of the Germanic languages, and

also the ancestors of early Greek and Latin and the Celtic languages.

As you may recall from earlier episodes, I've discussed the distinction that many linguists

make between the so-called ketum and satam languages within the larger family of Indo-European

languages.

This distinction actually has very little relevance today other than identifying an early division

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