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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Old Indo-Aryan subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Mazanderani language family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Avestan language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Parthian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pamir languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Bhili languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Munster Irish hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lorenzo hasOriginInLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Tuscan dialect hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lambadi language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Connacht Irish partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Connacht Irish languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Kashmiri language partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Kashmiri language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Digor dialect languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Alanic language subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Alanic language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Eastern Walloon languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Modern English hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Middle Persian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Middle Persian
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Continental Celtic languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Continental Celtic languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Hispano-Romance dialects linguisticFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Astigiano Piedmontese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Arvanitika languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Khas Kura languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Pars historicalLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Lurs languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Colognian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Brabantic languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Rhaeto-Romance languages subclassOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Extremaduran language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Canavese Piedmontese languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Vallader languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southeastern Iranian languages partOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Southeastern Iranian languages hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Proto-Indo-Iranian language subfamilyOf Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
North Frisian family Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Flemish Dutch languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Malwai Punjabi belongsTo Indo-European language family
Qazvini Persian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fascian languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Fodom languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Anpezan languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Baleswari Odia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Ganjami Odia languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Prussian language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
mirandés languageFamily Indo-European language family
subject surface form: Mirandés
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages
Old Iranian languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European
Kumzari language languageFamily Indo-European language family
this entity surface form: Indo-European languages