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The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers.
Latino-Faliscan languages and dialects in different shades of blue. The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE . Latin and Faliscan belong to the group, as well as two ...
The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language. [1]
The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol. [3] In central Italy they are spoken in the northern Marches (Gallo-Italic of the Marches); [4] in southern Italy in some language islands in ...
Germanic languages are closer to Italic and Celtic languages without a doubt. There is a split amongst Indo-European languages which divides most of them into “Centum” (Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic) and “Satem” (Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Iranian). These names reflect sound changes that affected these groups of languages.
Linguists believe that the Italic and Celtic languages are the closer to one another than to other Indo-European language subfamilies, which seems counterintuitive to people because the Italic languages and their Romance language descendants are spoken primarily in Southern Europe, where they originated, while the Celtic languages are today spoken in the British Isles.
