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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Standard Belarusian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Harauti languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Slovak language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Silesian language hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dhundhari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sorbian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Slavs languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malvani partOf Indo-European language family
Central Swedish dialects languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bulgarian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Derawali languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judeo-Iranian languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shina languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chicago English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ligurian language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Nissart languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Haketia hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rioplatense Spanish belongsToLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chhattisgarhi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kangri languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kurgan hypothesis languageFamilyConcerned Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian peoples partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European family
Braj Bhasha languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Manx languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Caleño Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pastuso Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Chocoano Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Picene language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Norse languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
West Flemish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Picene people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Macedonian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Assamese subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Assamese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Gutnish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Frisian (partially) languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Frisian languages
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ukrainian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Czech language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Medes languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Övdalian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Slavic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Low German languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Slavic language subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Common Slavic partOf Indo-European language family
Common Slavic subfamilyOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Common Slavic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Old Icelandic partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Icelandic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Lombard family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages