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  1. 3 days ago · The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct .

    • Ancient Belgian

      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

      The Cimmerians were a Iranic people sharing a common...

    • Elymian

      Language family. Indo-European. Anatolian or Italic....

  2. 4 days ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  3. 1 day ago · Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan , the only country where it is the national language , and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

    • ~128 million (2020)
    • Japan
  4. 4 days ago · Celtic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times and currently known chiefly in the British Isles and in the Brittany peninsula of northwestern France. On both geographic and chronological grounds, the languages.

  5. 5 days ago · Turkish language, the major member of the Turkic language family, spoken in Turkey, Cyprus, and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East. It is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and underwent significant reform with the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923.

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  6. 5 days ago · Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries. There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th.

  7. 4 days ago · Spoken in southern Africa, these endangered languages share a distinctive profile, and yet likely did not all come from a single family. Explore where they may have begun and how they work. 6 Niger-Congo: Largest Family in Africa I. The Niger-Congo family consists of anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 different languages.

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