The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) language families spoken by about or more than 3.5 billion people (roughly half of the world population). Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups of Europe, and Western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family. Therefore ...
Derived from Hindustani chāmpo (चाँपो [tʃãːpoː]) (verb imperative, meaning "rub!"), dating to 1762. T Teapoy from charpoy चारपाई,ٹھگ Teen payi in Hindi-Urdu,meaning "three legged" or "coffee table". Thug from Thagi ठग,ٹھگ Thag in Hindi-Urdu,meaning "thief or con man". Tickety-boo
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There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to the estimate by Ethnologue, with over two thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch. All Indo-European languages are descendants of a single prehistoric language, reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime in the Neolithic era.
- Pre-colonial era: Eurasia, Today: Worldwide, c. 3.2 billion native speakers
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
- Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic (Baltic and Slavic languages), Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Indo-Iranian (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and Nuristani), Italic (including Romance languages), Anatolian †, Illyrian †(?), Daco-Thracian †(?), Tocharian †, Phrygian †
Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family.Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language; within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Romance, Slavic, and Germanic with more than 200 million speakers each, between them accounting for close to 90% of Europeans.
Goalpariya is a group of Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the Goalpara region of Assam, India.Along with Kamrupi, they form the western group of Assamese dialects. The North Bengali dialect is situated to its west, amidst a number of Tibeto-Burman speech communities.
- Western Golapariya, Eastern Goalpariya
- India
The most widely spoken Indo-European languages by native speakers are Spanish, English, Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu), Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Persian and Punjabi, each with over 100 million speakers. Today, 46% of the human population speaks an Indo-European language natively, by far the highest of any language family.
Interlingua is also based on European languages but with its main source being that of Italic descendant languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, with German and Russian being secondary sources, with words from further afield (but internationally known and often borrowed) contributing to the language's vocabulary (such as ...
Gemination is specially characteristic of Punjabi compared to other Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi-Urdu, where instead of the presence of consonant lengthening, the preceding vowel tends to be lengthened. Consonant length is distinctive in Punjabi, for example: ਦਸ [d̪əs] – "ten"; ਦੱਸ [d̪əsː] – "tell" (verb)
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included.These figures do not take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective) and homographs.