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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Gojri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fering languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Öömrang languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Majhi Punjabi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Ladin dialect group languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fassan Ladin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Halligen Frisian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Riodonorês languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Chorasmian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Extremaduran languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southern Extremaduran languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Antonio Udina languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Dalmatian language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
sursilvan languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Sursilvan
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Achomi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Akhami languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Achomi language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khonji languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dinajpuri dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Piedmontese varieties languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ladin people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Noardhoeksk languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Faroese people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Isfahan dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gandhari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gudbrandsdalen dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chipilo Venetian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Talian (Brazilian Venetian) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
vec languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Venetian language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Syloti languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Changma Kodha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ruáingga languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Söl'ring languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mashhad dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Heinzenberg dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rheinwald dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khandeshi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kumzari people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Poitevin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Angika language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sadri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yola language of County Wexford languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mallorquí languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Latgalian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Malwi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Curonian (extinct language) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
English in Ghana languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chakavian dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Varaždin Kajkavian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hamshen Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Criol de Sal languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages