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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Basic English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Marwari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Istriot languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Torlakian dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kumaoni people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lechitic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Romance languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Genoese dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bonifacino dialect partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Líguru languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Modern Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southern Indo-Aryan languages partOf Indo-European language family
Marathi–Konkani languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kohistani Shina languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Palasi Shina hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Brokskat isPartOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Brokskat languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Franconian German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Galatian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Surgujia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chhattisgarhi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cartagena variety languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Raigarh languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Raigarh (dialect)
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Median language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kawardha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Pahari language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Pahari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Western Pahari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sambalpuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hindustani language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mandeali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Odias languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dardic peoples languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Hindi partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Hindi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Kingdom of Dacia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sudpiceno languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Picene language subgroupOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gotlandic Swedish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Low Saxon dialect continuum languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ostfälisch languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Christendom hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
North Germanic peoples hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Walser German dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lorrain Romance languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chambeali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Outer Banks English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Picard languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages