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The sources for Indo-European reconstruction

In early stages of Indo-European linguistics, the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European was dominated by the influence of Sanskrit, which was for a long time the earliest attested Indo- European language. Indeed, early Indo- Europeanists, such as Franz Bopp, sometimes found it difficult to distinguish between PIE, as the common origin of Indo-European languages, and Sanskrit, as the earliest attested individual Indo-European language. Most reference works of Indo-European linguistics published in the late 19th and early 20th century such as the compendia of Brugmann, Hirt and Meillet, reflect the model of PIE chiefly based on the classical languages, above all Sanskrit and Greek, with minor corrections from Latin, early Germanic and Balto-Slavic. Evidence from other languages known at the time, such as Celtic, Armenian and Albanian was used occasionally to support conclusions based on the analysis of forms from classical languages, but seldom (if ever) to cast any doubts on those conclusions.

Proto-Indo-European, linguistic reconstruction

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