Indo-European language family

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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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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

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Achomi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Samogitian language partOf Indo-European language family
Samogitian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Western Baltic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Balto-Slavic language partOf Indo-European language family
Bhuyan Odia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Iranian languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Varhadi dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Celtic tribes spokeLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Novarese Piedmontese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sursilvan partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Arbëresh languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Frisian family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Piemontese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Firozkohi Aimaqs languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sutsilvan partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sutsilvan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Arcadocypriot Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sylheti language subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sylheti language hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Chakma language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Haryanvi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Poitevin-Saintongeais languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gallo language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ramsloh dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Strücklingen dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Atlantic English Creole hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lower Carniolan dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Baltic partOf Indo-European language family
Kajkavian dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kerneveg languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Spanish is an official language of Ecuador languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Spanish language in Ecuador
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Luri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Norwegian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
PIE languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Proto-Indo-European
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
PIE ancestorOf Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Proto-Indo-European
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pumontincu languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kauravi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mewati languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bagri partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ahirwati belongsToFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lambadi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dhatki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Goaria languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Armenian subdivisionOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European