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Indo-european languages

 

The Indo-European, family of languages has more speakers than any other language family. It is estimated that half the world's population speaks an Indo-European tongue as a first language. The Indo-European family is so named because at one time its individual members were prevalent mainly in an area between and including India and Europe.

 

FAMILYGROUPSUBGROUPLANGUAGES & DIALECTS
Anatolian     Hieroglypic Hittite, Hittite (Kanesian), Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Palaic
Baltic     Latvian, Lithuanian, Old Prussian
Celtic Brythonic   Breton, Cornish, Welsh
Continental   Gaulish
Gaelic   Irish Gaelic, Manx, Scottish Gaelic
Germanic East Germanic   Burgundian, Gothic, Vandalic
North Germanic   Norse, Danish, Faeroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
West Germanic High German German, Yiddish
Low German Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, Frisian, Plattdeutsch
Greek     Aeolic, Arcadian, Attic, Byzantine Greek, Cyprian, Doric, Ionic, Koine, Modern Greek
Indo-Iranian Dardic or Pisacha   Kafiri, Kashmiri, Khowar, Kohistani, Romany (Gypsy), Shina
Indic or Indo-Aryan Ancient Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Vedic
Central Indic Hindi, Hindustani, Urdu
East Indic Assamese, Bengali, Bihari, Oriya
Northwest Indic Punjabi, Sindhi
Pahari Central Pahari, Eastern Pahari (Nepali), Western Pahari
South Indic Marathi, Konkani, Sinhalese
West Indic Bhili, Gujarati, Rajasthani dialects
Iranian Ancient Avestan, Old Persian
East Iranian Baluchi, Khwarazmian, Ossetic, Pamir dialects, Pushtu (Afghan), Saka (Khotanese), Sogdian, Yaghnobi
West Iranian Kurdish, Pahlavi (Middle Persian), Parthian, Persian (Farsi), Tajiki
Italic (Non-Romance)   Faliscan, Latin, Oscan, Umbrian
Romance Eastern Romance Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Sardinian
Western Romance Catalan, French, Ladino, Portuguese, Provençal, Spanish
Slavic East Slavic   Bielarussian, Russian, Ukrainian
South Slavic   Bulgarian, Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian
West Slavic   Czech, Kashubian, Lusatian, Polabian, Polish, Slovak
Thraco-Illyrian     Albanian, Illyrian, Thracian
Thraco-Phrygian     Armenian, Grabar, Phrygian
Tokharian     Tokharian A (Agnean), Tokharian B (Kuchean)

 

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