The majority of Europeans speak Indo-European languages, so called because they descend from a single proto-historical and prehistoric mother tongue, whose dialects spread across Europe and part of central Asia. The Indo-Europeans of Europe today (considering only the representatives of linguistic groups still alive) are the descendants of the Celts<\/em><\/a>, who settled in Antiquity north of the Alps and near the Atlantic, then along the Danube, before retreating toward the oceanic promontories; of the Italic<\/em> peoples in the great peninsula, among them the Latins<\/em>; of the Germans<\/em>, who radiated out from their first homeland toward the Alps and Scandinavia; of the Balts<\/em><\/a>, from the Vistula, then the Neman, to the Daugava; of the Slavs<\/em> between the Carpathians and the Pripyat, who moved southwest into the Balkans; of their Albanian<\/em> neighbors; and of the Hellenes<\/em>.<\/p>\n A common Indo-European emblem would unite the symbols of the three cosmic and social functions that were characteristic of them as concepts (modeled on the engravings of Val Camonica): the sun, the double axe (lightning), and the plow (production).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\u00ab V.1 Aquitanian ancestry]<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 [V.2.a Celts \u00bb]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" V. GENTES |\u00a0THE EUROPEAN PEOPLES V.2. Indo-European language roots The majority of Europeans speak Indo-European languages, so called because they descend from a single proto-historical and prehistoric mother tongue, whose dialects spread across Europe and part of central Asia. The Indo-Europeans of Europe today (considering only the representatives of linguistic groups still alive) are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[104,106],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-symbols","tag-signi","tag-symbols"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurosked.info\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}