Indo-European language family

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language family macro-family

The Indo-European language family is a major global language group that includes many of the world’s most widely spoken languages across Europe and large parts of Asia.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Indo-European languages	1,023
Indo-European	146
Indo-European language family canonical	38
Indo-European family	1
Indo-European proto-languages	1
Indo‑European languages	1
Proto-Indo-European language	1

Statements (84)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language family ⓘ macro-family ⓘ
alternativeName	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
classificationStatus	widely accepted by historical linguists ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Americas ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Oceania ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Middle East ⓘ surface form: West Asia
hasExtinctBranch	Anatolian languages ⓘ Tocharian languages ⓘ
hasMajorBranch	Albanian language branch ⓘ Armenian language branch ⓘ Balto-Slavic languages ⓘ Celtic languages ⓘ Germanic languages ⓘ Hellenic languages ⓘ Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ Nuristani languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ
hasProtoLanguage	Proto-Indo-European language ⓘ
hasSubfamily	Albanian language branch ⓘ Anatolian languages ⓘ Armenian language branch ⓘ Baltic languages ⓘ Balto-Slavic languages ⓘ Brythonic languages ⓘ Celtic languages ⓘ East Germanic languages ⓘ Eastern Romance languages ⓘ Germanic languages ⓘ Goidelic languages ⓘ Hellenic languages ⓘ Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ Balkans ⓘ surface form: Indo-European Sprachbunds Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ Italic languages ⓘ North Germanic languages ⓘ Nuristani languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ Slavic languages ⓘ Tocharian languages ⓘ West Germanic languages ⓘ Western Romance languages ⓘ
historicalOrigin	Pontic-Caspian steppe (hypothesized) ⓘ
importance	one of the world’s largest language families by number of speakers ⓘ
includesLanguage	Albanian language ⓘ Armenian language ⓘ Bengali language ⓘ Dutch language ⓘ English language ⓘ French language ⓘ German language ⓘ Greek language ⓘ Hindi language ⓘ Irish language ⓘ Italian language ⓘ Kurdish languages ⓘ Marathi language ⓘ Pashto language ⓘ Persian language ⓘ Polish language ⓘ Portuguese language ⓘ Punjabi language ⓘ Russian language ⓘ Spanish ⓘ surface form: Spanish language Ukrainian language ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ Welsh language ⓘ
reconstructedBy	comparative method ⓘ
spokenBy	billions of people worldwide ⓘ
timeDepth	late Neolithic to early Bronze Age (hypothesized) ⓘ
writingSystemsInclude	Arabic script ⓘ Armenian script ⓘ Cyrillic script ⓘ Devanagari script ⓘ Georgian script (for some contact languages) ⓘ Greek script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (1,211)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

English → partOf → Indo-European language family ⓘ

Scottish Gaelic → partOfLanguageFamily → Indo-European language family ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indo-European

Indo-European language family → alternativeName → Indo-European language family ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indo-European

Indo-European language family → alternativeName → Indo-European language family ⓘ