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
Indo-European languages
classificationStatus widely accepted by historical linguists
geographicDistribution Americas
Central Asia
Europe
Oceania
South Asia
West Asia
linked to: Middle East
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
Indo-European Sprachbunds
linked to: Balkans

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 language
linked to: Spanish

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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English partOf Indo-European language family
Scottish Gaelic partOfLanguageFamily Indo-European
linked to: Indo-European language family
Indo-European language family alternativeName Indo-European
linked to: Indo-European language family
Indo-European language family alternativeName Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Spanish languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Europe hasLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Old Irish languageFamily Indo-European
linked to: Indo-European language family
American English hasLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Asia containsMajorLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Yiddish languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Italic languages subclassOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Italic languages partOf Indo-European language family
Italic languages hasAncestor Proto-Indo-European language
linked to: Indo-European language family
Vulgar Latin languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Norse subclassOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Danish language family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Romanian language family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Old High German languageFamily Indo-European
linked to: Indo-European language family
Old English partOfLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Tocharian languages subclassOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Tocharian languages languageFamily Indo-European language family
Tocharian languages branchOf Indo-European language family
Portuguese language languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Russian language languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Punjabi language family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Marathi language family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Persian language languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Italian language family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Polish language languageFamily Indo-European
linked to: Indo-European language family
Albanian language languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Anglo-Frisian dialects partOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
British Isles English languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Sanskrit family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Primitive Irish languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Proto-Celtic languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Scots languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Norwegian language family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Hindi partOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Bengali family Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Catalan languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Afrikaans languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Medieval Greek partOfLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Ionic Greek languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Modern Greek languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Germanic languages subclassOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Germanic languages majorModernBranchOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Urdu languageFamily Indo-European languages
subject linked to: Urdu language
linked to: Indo-European language family
Anatolian languages subclassOf Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family
Anatolian languages familyColor Indo-European
linked to: Indo-European language family
Armenians languageFamily Indo-European languages
linked to: Indo-European language family