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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Pothwari family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nesite languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Apabhramsha partOf Indo-European language family
Locrian dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pahari-Potohari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pothohari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
English in Louisiana languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Badînî languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dagestani peoples hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Behdini languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Serhedi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Romeyka languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hawrami dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bajelani dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fiji Baat languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Hindi languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Hindi languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Chaldiot languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Caspian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Semnani languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tati language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sangisari language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bajelani language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khotanese language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tumshuqese language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Karl Verner studied Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tat people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Zaza people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Iranian languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kermanic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prussians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Samnite-Oscan world languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sogdian language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gaeilge Uladh languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gaels languageBranchOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yaghnobi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sanglechi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Parachi partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Parachi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Scythian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Alanian subfamilyOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tumshuqese subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tumshuqese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Ashkun languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prasuni languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Tregami languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Singlish
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vasi-vari partOf Indo-European language family
Vasi-weri partOf Indo-European language family
Vasi-weri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European