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2013 词汇学复习资料词汇学复习资料 词汇学复习资料词汇学复习资料 The development of the English Vocabulary 1. Indo-European Language Family The Indo-European Language Family is considered as one of the most important language families. It includes most languages of Europe, the Near East, and India. Those languages, which are believed to have originated from this language family and developed alone different lines, show various degrees of similarity to one another. They fall into eight principal groups, which can be grouped into an Eastern Set 东部诸语族东部诸语族: Balto-Slavic 波罗的-斯拉夫语, 东部诸语族东部诸语族 Indo-Iranian 印度伊朗语族, Armenian 亚美尼亚语族 and Albanian 阿尔巴尼亚语族; a Western Set: 西部诸语族西部诸语族 Celtic 凯尔特语族, Italic 意大利语族, Hellenic 希腊语族, 西部诸语族西部诸语族 Germanic 日尔曼语族. All the languages in both sets shed some influence on English to a greater or lesser extent because each has lent words into the English vocabulary. Prussian 普鲁士语 Lithuanian 立陶宛语 Polish 波兰语 Balto-Slavic 波罗的-斯拉夫语 Czech 捷克斯洛伐克语