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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Sadri family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nuorese Sardinian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
sassaresu hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Sassaresu
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Macedonians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Paelignian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Vestinian languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Vestinians
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Italic partOf Indo-European language family
Sabellic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Latini prisci languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Latino sine flexione languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gavot languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vivarois hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Alpin d’oc languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vivaroalpine languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Limousin Occitan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Awankari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Metropolitan French languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kurmali language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Niçart subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Niçart languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Arniya hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chitrari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Central Indo-Aryan languages partOf Indo-European language family
Gronings languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tweants languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sallaands languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Elbgermanisch hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Chitrali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Maniot Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Maniots languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
oss languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Digor languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gilak people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sourashtra language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Veluws Nedersaksisch languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lasi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Barwali Kangri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gallurese dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Danish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gascon Occitan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Orkney Norn languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Norn language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shetland Norn languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Caithness Norn languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Arpitan language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fala languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Xalimegu languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
A Fala de Xálima languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
A Fala de Jálama languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Modern Cornish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages