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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Talysh languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Trentino dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Icelandic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Norn languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Standard Icelandic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
English in the Northern Mariana Islands languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Thari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Insular Celtic languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fala language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Friulian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tabarchino languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
West Scandinavian languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Siculian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lesbian Greek dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Gonzalo hasOriginInLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Dari languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Judeo-Tajik languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cellese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hauke associatedLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malvi languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bundeli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Yola languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bengali people languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Auvergnat partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bagheli partOf Indo-European language family
Bagheli languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Bamberg dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ripuarian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lorrain languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Hellenic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Awadhi family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
New Jersey English languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bornholmsk languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Faliscan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Mozarabic language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Eonavian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Cuneese Piedmontese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Piemontèis languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Geg languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Western Romance partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Medieval Albanian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Picard language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Welsh languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Shanshan hasCulturalInfluence Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Tajik language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Luri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Saka languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Saka languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Hazaragi dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Scythia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages