The modern Indian languages were derived from the Prakrit languages.
Although these languages were derived from the same Afro-Asiatic stock, the more apparent differences between the peoples often were excuses for war, which, by the end of the 20th century, was waged under the banner of nationalism and Marxism-Leninism.
The Creole language is derived from a mix of English and African languages.
Modern knowledge of the language is derived almost entirely from the Iguvine Tables (q.v ., a set of bronze tablets discovered near Gubbio (ancient Iguvium), Italy, in 1444.
Further information about the language is derived from names and loanwords in foreign texts, from place-names, and from comparative reconstruction based on related languages and later dialects.
The people, whose language is derived from Mongolian, are descendants of nomads who first roamed the steppes of Central Asia nearly eight hundred years ago, under the leadership of Genghis Khan — who, as it happens, is one of Ilyumzhinov's heroes, along with Fischer and the Dalai Lama.
Later on the Thracians took over, and in 101 A.D. Rumania was invaded by the Romans, who were led by the Emperor Trajan, Traces of the Roman occupation still bobs up in Rumanian culture: the language is derived from vulgar Latin spoken by th Rumanian soldiers.
Knowledge concerning the Pictish language is derived from place-names, the names in medieval works such as the Pictish Chronicle and the writings of Bede, inscriptions from the Pictish areas of Britain, statements about the language by medieval writers who wrote while the language was still in use, and names from northern Scotland found in classical works.
The Cornish language is derived from the Brythonic branch of the Insular Celtic languages.
Linguistic research suggests that the Malagasy language is derived from Southeast Barito (SEB), a subgroup of Austronesian languages, and is most closely related to the language spoken by the land-locked forest-dweller Ma'anyan in central and southeastern Kalimantan (Borneo) [ 6, 10- 13], one indigenous language among 73 others spoken in Borneo [ 14].
