What is the closest language to Proto Indo-European?

And generally speaking an ie homeland in Anatolia is more than credible as non agricultural steppes of south Ukraine did not have an important number of inhabitants,so closest language to proto indo-european should be anatolian branch.

Do people still speak Proto Indo-European?

No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists. Over many centuries, these dialects transformed into the known ancient Indo-European languages. From there, further linguistic divergence led to the evolution of their current descendants, the modern Indo-European languages.

Can you learn Proto Indo-European?

Originally Answered: How can I learn Proto-Indo-European? You can’t. It is a theoretical language from which the Indo-European languages have descended. It has left no written documents.

What is the hardest Indo-European language to learn?

I would say that the most difficult Indo-European languages to learn are the long ago extinct languages Sanskrit and Hittite. I have studied Sanskrit, and it’s a very difficult language to learn, much more so than Russian and Old Church Slavonic.

How are proto-languages reconstructed?

Proto-languages are usually unattested, or in some cases only partially attested. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. In the strict sense, a proto-language is the most recent common ancestor of a language family, immediately before the family started to diverge into the attested daughter languages.

Which of the following is an Indo-European language?

Indo-European languages