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  1. Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...

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      Ancient Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European...

    • Proto-Indo-European Homeland

      The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric...

    • Dacian

      Dacian (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n /) is an extinct language generally...

    • Cimmerian

      according to János Harmatta, it was derived from Old Iranic...

    • Elymian

      Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian...

  2. Of the 20 languages with the most speakers, 12 are Indo-European: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Sindhi, Punjabi, Marathi, French, and Urdu. [1] Four of the six official languages of the United Nations are Indo-European: English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Main language groups [ change | change source]

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  4. Feb 6, 2019 · The most widely spoken Indo-European languages by native speakers are Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Spanish, English, Portuguese, Bengali, Punjabi, and Russian, each with over 100 million speakers, with German, French, Marathi, Italian, and Persian also having more than 50 million.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HindiHindi - Wikipedia

    Linguistically, Hindi and Urdu are two registers of the same language and are mutually intelligible. Both Hindi and Urdu share a core vocabulary of native Prakrit and Sanskrit-derived words.

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  6. Jun 22, 2020 · The Germanic Languages. The Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family is thought to have originated in Northern Europe, somewhere in the area around Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia, probably within the 1st millennium BC. This makes the Germanic peoples a relatively recent development on the European stage.

  7. Hindi and Urdu have a common form known as Hindustani, which is a Hindi-Urdu mixed language. Historical and cultural processes and the linguistic affinity that exists in Indian languages led to the emergence of Hindi-Urdu or so-called Hindustani as the lingua franca of major areas of India long before its independence.

  8. Sep 14, 2020 · A language is not made, it makes itself. And no amount of human effort can ever kill a language,” he noted in his story titled ‘Hindi aur Urdu’. The Hindi vs Urdu debate was in fact just about a century old then. It is only from the mid 1800s that we see a gradual politicisation of the two languages, and their consequent polarisation ...

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