Example sentences for: indo-

How can you use “indo-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hungarians have always been fiercely proud of their language, a non Indo-European island in a sea of Slavic, Germanic, and Romance tongues.

  • Fidel Castro was married at the church here in 1948, and the town’s Museo Indo-Cubano has fascinating finds from Chorro de Maíta.

  • Some of the varieties are unfamiliar, like Babu English, a mode of address and reference in several Indo-Aryan languages, including Hindi, for officials working forrajahs, landlords, etc.

  • The term Indo-European cropped up first at the beginning of the 19th century; as much of the work was being done in Germany, it is not surprising that the term preferred there was Indo-Germanic , actually a translation of indogermanisch (with a small i because it is an adjective), which arose in the late 1820s; the latter survives in the literature, largely replaced by the former, especially since the discovery that Celtic is a member of the family.

  • The languages discussed here are what are usually called the Indo-European family; similar family trees could be drawn for the Semitic languages, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Bantu, Malayo-Polynesian, and so on.


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