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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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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Indo-Iranian languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages isMajorBranchOf Indo-European language family
Ahirani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gaulish partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eskimo–Aleut languages notGeneticallyRelatedTo Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Corsican language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Virgin Islands Creole English hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Uralic languages isNotGeneticallyRelatedTo Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Slovene languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bokmål languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Saterland Frisian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Indo-European languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Old Norwegian subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Norwegian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Greeks languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Baloch people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khari Boli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rajasthani family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Albanians primaryLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Goidelic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Celtiberian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Jèrriais languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gallo-Romance languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bhojpuri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Magadhi Prakrit partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
East Slavic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Grimm's law languageFamilyContext Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Irminonic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Irminonic languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Konkani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sanskritized Prakrits languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Palaic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Palaic isRelatedTo Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sidetic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Milyan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Cuneiform Luwian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Medieval Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Verner's law languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hieroglyphic Luwian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Doric Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Finnish Kalo languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lycian subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lycian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Potohari partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Potohari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Lydian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Hittite (Nesite) languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Northwest Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Katharevousa languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pontic Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages