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What is the relevance of the centum-satem isogloss?

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An “isogloss” is a geographic boundary of a linguistic feature.

“Centum-Satem” is the Indo-European language family. Centum includes Germanic, Celtic, and Italic. Satem includes Iranian and Balto-Slavic.

Greek, Sanskrit, French, German, English and other Indo and European languages share commonalities and are thought to be derived from these earlier parent languages.

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