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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Proto-Insular Celtic (hypothetical) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Proto-Insular Celtic
this entity surface form: Indo-European
tabarchin languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Tabarchin
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dakhni languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wagdi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Languedocien Occitan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bukhori languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bukhari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bukharic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Leshon Bukharim languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bukhari Tajik languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ujjaini Malvi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rajawari Malvi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bhoyari Malvi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malavi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Numedal dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bundelkhandi Hindi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Forth and Bargy dialect (historical) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Forth and Bargy dialect
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yola became extinct in the 19th century languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Yola language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ghosts languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malvi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bagheli people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sondhwari Malvi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Franc-Comtois languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vosgien languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
awa languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lemko language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Bornholmian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eonavian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Jauer languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Norse language languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Old Norse
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Brittonic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Welsh languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tocharians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kroraina languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sidetic language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Szemerényi's law languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bable languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Luri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bactrian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Amiénois languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tabari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tabari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mazani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sari dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Amoli dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Babolki dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Roshani language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khufi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bartangi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Ishkashimi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages