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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Basques notInLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Valaisan Arpitan partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kohistani languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Torwali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Multicultural London English (as an influence and predecessor) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Multicultural London English
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Riograndenser Hunsrückisch hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Plautdietsch (among Mennonite Volga Germans) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Atlantic Canadian English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Country English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Labrador English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Armenians
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nimadi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Banat Swabian dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Texas English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Scots-Irish English hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yorkshire English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Norman language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pashai languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
New Mexican Spanish hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Utah English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Arizona English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Marvadi hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Maine English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
German associatedLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Brythonic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Calabrian Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bihari languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Franconian German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
British Columbia English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nagpuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nigerian English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Slovak dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Early New High German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ipetu Ijesa hasSecondaryLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bohemians traditionalLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rakhine language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Belarusian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Jaipuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lower Sorbian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Phrygian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Greek family Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Greek language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Haramosh Shina languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Awadhi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Caribbean English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Phrygians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Upper Sorbian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
East Scandinavian partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Norrland dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Bulgarian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Bulgarian dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages