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4 days ago · In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
May 4, 2024 · The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages spoken by about 3.5 billion people or more (roughly half of the world population). Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups in Europe, and western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family. This is thus the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, Hindustani, Latin and Sanskrit can all be traced back to this ancestral language.
May 1, 2024 · The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers, and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia, spanning from the Indian ...
Apr 19, 2024 · The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca of the world and is the standard language in a wide variety of fields, including computer coding, international business, and higher education.
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Apr 20, 2024 · (A) Indo-European languages covered in the IE-CoR database: 109 modern languages (round dots) and 52 nonmodern languages (diamonds). An interactive version is available at https://iecor.clld.org/languages. Colors distinguish the 12 main clades of Indo-European (other potential clades went extinct without sufficient written record).
Apr 23, 2024 · Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia. Key People: Erasmus. Theodore Beza. Maximus The Greek. Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples. Maximus Planudes. Related Topics: Doric dialect. Koine. Byzantine Greek language. Modern Greek language. Ancient Greek language. (Show more) Recent News. Apr. 27, 2024, 2:17 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))