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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Dhivehi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Loarki macroFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Godwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Guernésiais languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Dhivehi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Upper Carniolan dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Anatolian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Gherdëina languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Indo-Aryan peoples languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Latvian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Garhwali partOf Indo-European language family
Kumaoni family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Jaunsari family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southern Kurdish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sercquiais languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lombard language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Magahi language subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Magahi language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Emilian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Reggiano languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Champenois language belongsTo Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lorrain language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Burgundian (Oïl) language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Emiliano-Romagnol language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Neapolitan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ardhamagadhi Prakrit languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yuezhi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Roussillonnais Catalan hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Potohari Punjabi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kölsch languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chiac hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Crimean Gothic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ḍogrī languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northern Indo-Aryan languages partOf Indo-European language family
Northern Indo-Aryan languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hittite laws languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Carian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Palaite languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sidetian languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Sidetic language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Luwic memberOf Indo-European language family
Luwic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sumerian language notRelatedTo Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Norman languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Scandoromani hasLinguisticFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Late Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Carian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Luwians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sohain languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Jhelumi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hindko partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages