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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Mycenaean Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kurmanji languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Zazaki partOf Indo-European language family
Zazaki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Finland Swedish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fiji Hindi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gorani hasPhylum Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tsakonian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Slavs subfamilyOfLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Seraiki languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northwestern Iranian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sorani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cypriot Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Basque isUnrelatedTo Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Early Modern Irish subdivisionOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sabellic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sabellic languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ulster Irish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Classical Armenian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Iranian languages partOf Indo-European language family
Costoboci languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prasun language branchOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Greek subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European proto-languages
Proto-Greek partOf Indo-European language family
New Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kamviri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Tregami language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tregami language hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Roma people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lemnian language distinctFrom Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prakrit subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western civilization hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ashkun language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Slavic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Indo-Aryan subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Central German languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wanetsi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pennsylvania German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Veracruz Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Arpitan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sinhalese people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
English in the Solomon Islands languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Prairie English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shekhawati languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nevada English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Upper German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Marwari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Welsh languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle High German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Magahi partOf Indo-European language family