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1 day 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
1 day ago · CLV cline people with Lower Volga ancestry contributed four fifths of the ancestry of the Yamnaya, but also, entering Anatolia from the east, contributed at least a tenth of the ancestry of Bronze Age Central Anatolians, where the Hittite language, related to the Indo-European languages spread by the Yamnaya, was spoken.
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CLV cline people with Lower Volga ancestry contributed four fifths of the ancestry of the Yamnaya, but also, entering Anatolia from the east, contributed at least a tenth of the ancestry of Bronze Age Central Anatolians, where the Hittite language, related to the Indo-European languages spread by the Yamnaya, was spoken.
4 days ago · Eurasiatic resembles Nostratic in including Uralic, Indo-European, and Altaic, but differs from it in excluding the South Caucasian languages, Dravidian, and Afroasiatic and including Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, Ainu, and Eskimo–Aleut.
- One of the world's primary language families
4 days ago · Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans, speakers of the hypothesized Proto-Indo-European language.
4 days ago · Often schools are instructed in European languages, and official government business is conducted using European languages. The interaction of colonial languages and African speakers created new African uses of these European, or colonial, languages.
3 days ago · I’ve just mentioned that they share the same alphabet, but they also share a common origin: the ancient Indo-European language. They also share a few words rooted in the old Latin and Greek languages, which greatly simplifies the comprehension of many words from the other language.
