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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Nagamese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nagamese creole languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Volscian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sach language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sulaymaniyah dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shabaki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Laki language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Median languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sangisari people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cantabrians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
srh languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Sarikoli language
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Parāčī languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Waigali people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wasi-wari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gambiri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kata-vari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Carpi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Homshetsi (Hemshin dialect) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Homshetsi
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
գրաբար languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shugni languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Central Leonese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Llionés languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Llingua Llïonesa languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
East African English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Leonese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judeo-Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Romaniote Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judezmo Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Jevanic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Doteli language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hälsingemål languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Caló languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vandalic language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Misopogon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Zaza Dimlî languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kirmanjki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Northern Dimlî languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Westphalian dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cottian tribes languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mumviri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dara-i-Nur Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dehgal Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kuz Kunar Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nuristani Kalasha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Pashayi people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kordar Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tagau Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Daronta Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vestini people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Alingar Pashayi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages