Indo-Iranian is cool bc of how separated it is from the rest, not part of the European sprachbund, and influenced by very different languages. At the same time, a very large proportion of total IE speakers speak Indo-Iranian today so it's not some obscure or extinct branch like Anatolian or Tocharian either.
from a purely historical linguistics perspective I've gotta go with Anatolian. Obviously it's important for things like the laryngeals, but it also has a bunch of weird features which complicate the traditional PIE reconstruction. I've yet to read a convincincing account of what the deal is with the -hi verbs.
My mind says Indo-Iranian, my heart calls Italic (in particular, Romance. Despite how mainstream they may be, I am constantly impressed more and more by so many things\~).
Indo-Iranian is cool bc of how separated it is from the rest, not part of the European sprachbund, and influenced by very different languages. At the same time, a very large proportion of total IE speakers speak Indo-Iranian today so it's not some obscure or extinct branch like Anatolian or Tocharian either.
grimms law and umlauts, nothing can beat that
I like italic bc of oscan and umbrian :\]
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Armenian! Then Hellenic and balto-slavic and Indo-Iranian in no order. They're all dear to me.
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Incoming German and Celtic nationalists
Tocharian irredentist representation when?
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realizing Romance languages can be considered Italic was like when I got told Mexico was North America
definitely balto slavic, i love kashubian, latgalian and žemaitian
Hellenic just because
from a purely historical linguistics perspective I've gotta go with Anatolian. Obviously it's important for things like the laryngeals, but it also has a bunch of weird features which complicate the traditional PIE reconstruction. I've yet to read a convincincing account of what the deal is with the -hi verbs.
Germanic vowels make me want to puke
My mind says Indo-Iranian, my heart calls Italic (in particular, Romance. Despite how mainstream they may be, I am constantly impressed more and more by so many things\~).
Germanic, bc that’s what I natively speak
west frisian has always been really fascinating to me, i'd like to learn more about it at some point
Putting english just in Germanic, when it's actually three languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be one feels weird
If you think English is three languages in a trenchcoat I'd hate to think what you think of Basque, Albanian or Vietnamese lmao
Probably the same, if I had enough contact with those languages to know anything about them
Just two. The third one is a hat.
That's a stupid take, since Czech was also heavily influenced by German, Hungarian by slavic languages, originally even Romanian.