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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Illyrians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Thracians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lithuanians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gilaki family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Multani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Spanish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judezmo languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lahnda partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lahnda languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Lari hasAncestor Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
vlaheşte languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eastern Romance subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ionian Greek languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hernican language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Nynorsk languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Paelignian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sardinian language subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Low Franconian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
South Guelderish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Riasti languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lusitanians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sassarese hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sabellian subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sabellian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Latins linguisticFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ecclesiastical Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Louisiana French languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khoe-Kwadi notIdenticalTo Indo-European language family
oci hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages partOf Indo-European language family
Dutch Low Saxon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Niçard languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Twents languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khowar partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Serbian language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Sallands languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Wakhi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Judeo-Kermani languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Elbe Germanic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Elbe Germanic languages macroFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Old Latin subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Latin languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Italo-Celtic group languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Sabine language branchOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
On the Will in Nature languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ирон (Iron) belongsTo Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Ирон
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Veluws languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Umbrians languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Acadian French languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mauritian Creole subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages