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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Yidgha language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sanglechi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
New Caledonian French languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Mazanderani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wagdi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Patelia language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bhili–Khandeshi subgroup languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
English (Papua New Guinea) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pistoiese dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
کٲشُر languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kyrie languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Kyrie (Mozart Requiem)
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Jaunsari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chambeali language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mandeali language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kangri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Gaddi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Bilaspuri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Digor Ossetian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Berrichon dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Haryanvi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sturtevant’s Law languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Noric languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Western Walloon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Philippine English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Parbate languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Greater Pahari linguistic continuum languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Navarrese Romance languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
European Portuguese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Damanese Portuguese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Macanese Portuguese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Romance language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vegliot Dalmatian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dalmatian Romance languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Arvanitika of Attica languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khas people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Late Modern English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kuhgiluyeh Lurs languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Extremeñu languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Castúo languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vallader (Engadinais vallader) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Vallader
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Emilian dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rhaetian Romance languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Dolomite Ladin varieties languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kölsch dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bartangi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Khufi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yazgulyam languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Tangier Island English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kishtwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages