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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Bandari Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yüeh-chih languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mazanderani people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Russian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
European-American settlers languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Boyko dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Crimean Goth(ic) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Crimean Gothic
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bhaderwahi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Pamphylian Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Milyan language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Carian-Sidetic-Pisidian group languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Cotentinais languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Old Picard languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kullu Pahari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Norwegian Romani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Thuringian dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bilaspuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Auvergnat Occitan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Potohari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Potohari language continuum languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Pindi Potohari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Peshawari Hindko languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Jhelumi Pothwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Potwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nesite language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Serdi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Pahari-Pothwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pahari of Murree Hills languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chibhali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Dhundi-Kairali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Abbottabadi Hindko languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cajun English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northern Kurdish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Kurdish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Badinî languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Romeika languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Awrami languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Horami languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bajelani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bahdini languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judeo-Dalmatian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nagaland English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Formenteran Catalan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Liberian English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sorkhei language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Biyabunaki language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tatic languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sangesari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lasgerdi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sangisari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European