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Carl Darling Buck, “Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages”, 1949.

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 Rupert Snell, “Beginner’s Hindi Script: An Introduction to Reading & Writing Hindi”, 2000 was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species“, 1859 was also the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present:  Carl Darling Buck, “Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Languages of Indo-European”, 1949 which was a thesaurus of words of the Indo-European (Hindi, English & other languages) family.   Shown above is the English word “Fire” from the dictionary with synonyms from the other languages.   This thesaurus consists of about 1,000 words and is useful in linguistic analysis of this language family.  

Above is the complete language tree of all languages; and, Indo-European is on the right-side 6th from the top.

Indo-European is 445 living languages; and, 3/4 of these languages are Indic.  Indo-European is spoken by nearly 1/2 of the World population today.  English, Spanish & Hindi are Indo-European languages.  With Chinese, these three (English, Spanish & Hindi) are the four most spoken languages in the World. 

Here I presented:  Carl Darling Buck, “Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Languages of Indoeuropean”, 1949 was a thesaurus of words of the Indo-European language family.  The languages of Indo-European from the book are shown in the above table.

Following Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species”, 1859 linguistic science studied languages as an evolutionary process.

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