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Lisitsa
Tatyana
Evdokimova
Anastasia

Any language is like a person: it is born by its parents, lives its younger years, grows, meets other languages, sometimes makes relations with some of them, even gives birth to new offsprings. The new baby-language grows, then starts living separately, but usually doesn’t go far away from its parents. They may not meet each other for a long time, but when they do, they recognize easily, because they are somehow alike, they have certain common features.
Linguists, historians, culture studies specialists, anthropologists and ordinary people are have always being trying to find the origins of modern languages, to find even the first parent language which gave birth to all the variety of its descendants. Though, it hasn’t done yet—the written history is too short for this. Scientists have reconstructed several parent languages, using different methods of research, one of them is comparative method.
Our group was studying Germanic branch of the Indo-European Language Family Tree. We found the countries, where these languages are spoken (see the map), searched the dictionaries and found the words in them, compared lexical units from these languages. You know what? Languages are relatives, they can be immediate relatives or distant ones, WE ARE ONE FAMILY!

We used:
Сафонова В.В., Ханнен-Лэнг А. Английский язык: Пособие по культуроведению для Х класса школ с углубленным изучением английского языка. – М.: Просвещение, 2001. – 3-8 с.с.
http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/tree.html
http://home/wanadoo.nl/srjenbohuis/language-family-trees/ - (Encyclopedia Britannica)/
http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family

Any language is like a person: it is born by its parents, lives its younger years, grows, meets other languages, sometimes makes relations with some of them, even gives birth to new offsprings. The new baby-language grows, then starts living separately, but usually doesn’t go far away from its parents. They may not meet each other for a long time, but when they do, they recognize easily, because they are somehow alike, they have certain common features.
Linguists, historians, culture studies specialists, anthropologists and ordinary people are have always being trying to find the origins of modern languages, to find even the first parent language which gave birth to all the variety of its descendants. Though, it hasn’t done yet—the written history is too short for this. Scientists have reconstructed several parent languages, using different methods of research, one of them is comparative method.
Our group was studying Germanic branch of the Indo-European Language Family Tree. We found the countries, where these languages are spoken (see the map), searched the dictionaries and found the words in them, compared lexical units from these languages. You know what? Languages are relatives, they can be immediate relatives or distant ones, WE ARE ONE FAMILY!

МОУ Лицей № 130 имени академика М.А.Лаврентьева

Germanic Languages
( Are We Relatives?)
Novosibirsk 2006

Let’s talk!
Conversation in Swedish

- Hej! Jag heter Daniel. Det har ar min syster Julia.
- Jag heter Julia. Det har ar min bror Daniel.
- Och det har ar min mamma. Hon heter Inger. Det har ar min pappa. Han heter Ake.
- Jag heter Ake. Daniel ar min son och Julia ar min dotter.

Why can you solve these
puzzles?
God morgen! (Danish)
___________(English)
God aften! (Norwegian)
____________( English)
Gute Nacht! (German)
_______________ (English)
Moder (Danish) - mor (Norwegian) - Mutter (German) - ____(English)
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Do these languages have similarities? Do they have a common origin?

You need terms?
- Language family
- Branch of languages
- Language group
- Comparative method

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