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2 days ago · Today, Indo-European languages are spoken by billions of native speakers across all inhabited continents, the largest number by far for any recognised language family.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
5 days ago · noun. a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe. synonyms: Altaic. see more.
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1 day ago · Yakut / j ə ˈ k uː t / yə-KOOT, also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa (Yakut: саха тыла), is a Turkic language belonging to Siberian Turkic branch and spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic in the Russian Federation.
- 450,000 (2010 census)
3 days ago · Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are in the world, partly because of the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and a sub-language (or dialects within it). One authoritative source that has collected data from all over the world, The Ethnologue, listed the total number of languages as 6809 [ 15 ] .
4 days ago · German language, official language of both Germany and Austria and one of the official languages of Switzerland. German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Indo-European language family, along with English, Frisian, and Dutch (Netherlandic, Flemish). Learn more about the German language.
5 days ago · On the basis of ancient texts, scholars generally divide the history of Egyptian language into five periods: Old Egyptian (from before 3000 to about 2200 bce), Middle Egyptian (c. 2200–c. 1600 bce), Late Egyptian (c. 1550–c. 700 bce), Demotic (c. 700 bce –c. 400 ce), and Coptic (c. 2nd century ce until at least the 17th century).