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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Kati language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Grabar languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Armenian geneticRelation Indo-European language family
Middle Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Arbëreshë people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khwarezmian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Munji subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Leonese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northeastern Iranian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Classical Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yevanic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Koshali language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sri Lankan English hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khas languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Caribbean Dutch hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rromani hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ghent dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
East Germanic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
East Germanic languages partOf Indo-European language family
Dimlî hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Åboland Swedish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chakwal Potohari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hekari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bandari people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prasun people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kamkata-vari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Waigali language subfamilyOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shekhani (Kamkata-vari) language partOf Indo-European language family
Shekhani (Kamkata-vari) language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Kamkata-vari group macroLinguisticFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pashayi languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kam people usesLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
European literature languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khortha subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kati languageBranchOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
the West hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dacian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Messapians languageFamilyHypothesis Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Slovene dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Askunu languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Avar-Andic languages neighboringLanguageFamilies Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Paisaci partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Upper Saxon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northern Tat languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kalasha language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kamviri people ethnolinguisticGroup Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Salentino dialect hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Griko languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tabasco Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages