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Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction.
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
Indo-European is a major language family of Europe, parts of...
- Indo-Iranian
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic...
- Proto-Indo-European Language
Proto-Indo-European roots were affix-lacking morphemes that...
- Italic
Italic; Latino-Sabine, Italic–Venetic: Ethnicity: Originally...
- Language Family
2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's...
- Ancient Belgian
Ancient Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European...
- Proto-Indo-European Homeland
The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric...
- Dacian
Dacian (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n /) is an extinct language generally...
- Cimmerian
according to János Harmatta, it was derived from Old Iranic...
- Elymian
Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian...
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja. from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra. from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala. from Urdu, to refer to Indian flavoured spices.
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Hindi (हिन्दी Hindi) is one of the Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-European language family. The core of Hindi vocabulary is thus etymologically Indo-European. However, centuries of borrowinghas led to the adoption of a wide range of words with foreign origins.
Due to centuries of contact with Europeans, Turkic peoples, Arabs, Persians, and East Asians, Hindi-Urdu has absorbed countless words from foreign languages, often totally integrating these borrowings into the core vocabulary. The most common borrowings from foreign languages come from three different kinds of contact. Close contact with neighborin...
Feb 6, 2019 · The most widely spoken Indo-European languages by native speakers are Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Spanish, English, Portuguese, Bengali, Punjabi, and Russian, each with over 100 million speakers, with German, French, Marathi, Italian, and Persian also having more than 50 million.
Of the 20 languages with the most speakers, 12 are Indo-European: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Sindhi, Punjabi, Marathi, French, and Urdu. [1] Four of the six official languages of the United Nations are Indo-European: English, Spanish, French, and Russian.
Italic languages - Romance, Latin, Indo-European: Lexical comparison leads to more specific data about the history of the Italic languages. There are linguistic boundaries called isoglosses that may date back to pre-Italic history: e.g., Oscan humuns, Latin homines, and Gothic gumans ‘human beings’ derive from an Indo-European root that ...
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The Italic languages are a subfamily of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by Italic peoples. They include Latin and its descendants (the Romance languages) as well as a number of extinct languages of the Italian Peninsula, including Umbrian, Oscan, Faliscan, South Picene, and possibly Venetic and Sicel.
