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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Ishkashimi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Purgi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Guyanese Creole hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Czech–Slovak languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Czech–Slovak languages linguisticFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Czech languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Polabian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southern Bavarian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Proto-Slavic dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Serby belongsToLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nordfjord dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Middle Low Saxon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Triballi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dii languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Satrae languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Galeshi (Rudbari) dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Guilaki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Milanese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Brescian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Comasco languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Valtellinese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Camuno languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo‑European languages
Cremonese (Lombard variety) partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cremonese (Lombard variety) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lodigiano languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Illyrian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Getae languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Valchiavennasco languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Purgi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kutchi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
voice wake word "Hi Bixby" languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Hi Bixby
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Latin I languageFamilyTaught Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Aromãnji languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lahndi partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lahanda subclassOf Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Lahnda
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mirpuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Thali partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shapuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Winterthurer belongsToLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nostratic hypothesis includesLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
New Norwegian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mazanderani family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Ancient Greek dialect continuum languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Brabantian dialects hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hollandic dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Oïl languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Oïl languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Clevian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European