LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

Late Modern English -- 1700 - present (Fielding, Swift, Sterne, Rousseau, Voltaire, Goldsmith, Sterne, Richardson)

French


Bulgarian

Early Modern English -- 1500 - 1700 (Milton, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne)

Spanish, Portugese



Czech

Middle English -- 1100 - 1500 (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Robin Hood)
Picts (Scotland)
Italian


Polish
Armenian
Old English -- 450 - 1100 (Beowulf)
Scots (Ireland)
Romance



Russian
Romany
Germanic
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Welsh Celtic
Latin Greek Albanian
Baltic
Slavic
Sanskrit
Indic
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Indo European -- ~3,000 BC - - - >
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Taken from An American Rhetoric by Wm W Watt, 1952.




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