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The Paleo-European languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families caused by the Bronze Age invasion from the Eurasian steppe of pastoralists whose descendant languages dominate the continent today. [1] [2] Today, the vast majority of ...
- Greek. Year Started: Around 1200 to 300 BCE. No. of Speakers: 14 million. Language Family: Indo-European. Autonym: Νέα Ελληνικά (Néa Ellīniká), ελληνικά (Elliniká)
- Latin. Year Started: 700 BCE. No. of Speakers: N/A. Language Family: Indo-Iranian, Romance. Autonym: Latina. photo source: Antigone. Latin is one of the oldest European languages and has been spoken for over two thousand years.
- Persian. Year Started: Around 525 to 300 BCE. No. of Speakers: 110 million. Language Family: Indo-European. Autonym: Unspecified. photo source: Pinterest. With a history dating back to at least 525 BCE, Persian is considered one of the oldest European languages.
- Icelandic. Year Started: 9 CE. No. of Speakers: 314,000. Language Family: Indo-European, North Germanic. Autonym: íslenska. photo source: Wikipedia. Icelandic is believed to have originated from the Proto-Germanic language, which was spoken by the ancient Germanic tribes.
List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe. This article is a list of languages and dialects that have no native speakers, no spoken descendents, and diverged from their parent language in Europe. Currently extinct. Formerly extinct. See also. Europe portal. Language portal. Lists of extinct languages. List of endangered languages in Europe.
There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF EUROPE This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Lan-guages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language
Language in ancient Europe: an introduction; By Roger D. Woodard; Edited by Roger D. Woodard, State University of New York, Buffalo; Book: The Ancient Languages of Europe; Online publication: 01 September 2010; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486814.004
places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. • An authoritative reference work on the ancient languages of the world – the first of its kind • Makes widely accessible much generally inaccessible knowledge • Comprehensive, thorough and systematic – the languages are treated in a uniform and coherent way
