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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Northern Luri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dano-Norwegian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Swedish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kauravi dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ahirvati languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hirwati languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Gor Boli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Thareli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sistani people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Maliku Dhivehi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Addu dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sotavento Creoles languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Huvadhu dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Poljane Valley subdialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Podjuna dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pisidian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Italian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fodom Ladin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mahl people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rudraprayagi Garhwali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Kali Kumaoni languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gangoli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sorya languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Askoti languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Feyli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ilami languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malekshahi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bayrayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central Kurdish (Sorani) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Central Kurdish
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kalhori languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Odia people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gröden Ladin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Historik languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sarkese Norman languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Norman of Jersey languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Laghée languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bergamasque languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Brianzoeu languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pavese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mantuan Lombard languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vendsyssel dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Polans languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Reggiano dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dweep Bhasha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Megarian Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ferrarese dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Paraguayan Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Provençal languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Brabantian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Napulitano languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages