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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Russians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Marathi people primaryLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sicel languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Early Modern English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Franco-Provençal
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
East Franconian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northumbrian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fingallian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rhenish Franconian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Caucasus hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gandhari Prakrit partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gandhari Prakrit languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Iranian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Indo-European studies studies Indo-European language family
Celtic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Celtic languages familyColor Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Ibero-Romance languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Maharashtri Prakrit languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Piedmontese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gheg hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ossetian language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ossetian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
Romansh language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
African Portuguese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tosk languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Albanian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Common Albanian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Walloon language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Frisian subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Frisian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Middle Frisian partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Frisian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Proto-West Germanic partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
North American English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nepali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Varhadi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dalmatian language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Limburgish (Dutch variety) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Persians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malwai dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southwestern Iranian languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ladin language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Balto-Slavic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Aragonese language partOf Indo-European language family
Mirandese language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Saxon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Odia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sino-Tibetan languages neighboringFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hazaragi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages