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Indo-European languages. The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct.
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages in Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia. Historically, the language family was also important in Anatolia and Central Asia .
Languages of Europe. A color-coded map of languages used throughout 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.
This list is of Indo-European languages. These languages all sprung from a common source called Proto-Indo-European . Armenian. Albanian. Baltic languages. Latvian. Lithuanian. Celtic languages. Goidelic languages. Brythonic languages. Germanic languages. North Germanic languages. Danish. Faroese. Icelandic. Norwegian. Swedish.
The Indo-European languages include some 443 ( SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia. Subcategories. This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total. * Endangered Indo-European languages (6 C, 15 P)
Indo-European vocabulary. The following is a table of many of the most fundamental Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. Notes[edit] The following conventions are used:
