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The World and the LAnguage

4. Match each word or expression on the left with the correct definition on the right.

a) A language family

1) are a subgroup of the Italic.

b) Germanic and Italic

2) is a group of language that have a common origin.

c) Greek, the Slavic and the Celtic languages

3) are members of the Indo-European

language family.

d) Proto-Germanic

4) are more closely related than English and Russian.

e) The Romance languages

5) are subfamilies in the Indo-European family.

f) French and Italian

6) gave rise to Dutch, English, German and the Scandinavian tongues.

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