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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Hellenic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hellenic languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Indo-Aryan languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Indo-Aryan languages languageBranchOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Attic Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Irish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pashto language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nuristani languages partOf Indo-European language family
Maithili family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bangalore English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Anglo-Norman languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western American English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Andalusian Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Dutch languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Goidelic partOf Indo-European language family
Faroese language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Elfdalian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Low German hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Slavic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Slavic languages partOf Indo-European language family
Austro-Bavarian German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Balochi family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Saraiki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Aromanian family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Swedish language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judeo-Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Midwestern American English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chennai English hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Zeelandic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sindhi family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Latino-Faliscan languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Latino-Faliscan languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Italic peoples languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Popular Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
French languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Osco-Umbrian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Osco-Umbrian languages family Indo-European language family
Proto-Italic partOf Indo-European language family
Proto-Germanic subfamilyOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Germanic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Old East Norse subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old East Norse languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Megleno-Romanian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Church Slavonic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
North Germanic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Alemannic German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southern Africa hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages