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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The Woman from Perinthus languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kurtha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Deshwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khotta Bhasha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khorta Thar languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khorta languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mallorcans languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khotta languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Thracian language (hypothesized) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Thracian language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Baltic peoples languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yotvingian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Theosophy (Rudolf Steiner book) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shin languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Shina people
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Guyanese English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
European folklore languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Susak dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
ist languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Istriot language
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern South Slavic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khetrani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pomeranian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Pomeranian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Koli languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Katkari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malvani language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Standard Shina languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Minaro languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wiesbaden dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Giessen dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Tat languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Caucasian Tats languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Absheron Tat languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rumbur dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Warli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rangpuri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Messapic language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yucatec Spanish (inland varieties) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wotapuri-Katarqalai languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Gowro languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Talian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prince Edward Island English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Quebec English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ontario English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bungi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cape Breton English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malvi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nimari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kho languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Austrian Standard German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Zeneize languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages