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The Indo-European Family of Languages
Subfamily	Group	Subgroup	Languages and Principal Dialects
Anatolian Anatolian languages (ăn'ətō`lēən) ..... Click the link for more information.			Hieroglypic Hittite^, Hittite (Kanesian)^, Luwian^, Lycian^, Lydian^, Palaic^
Baltic Baltic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European subfamily to which the Baltic languages appear to be closest is the Slavic. ..... Click the link for more information.			Latvian Latvian or Lettish (lĕt`ĭsh) ..... Click the link for more information. (Lettish), Lithuanian Lithuanian (lĭth' ..... Click the link for more information. , Old Prussian^*
Celtic Celtic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula in the west across Europe to Asia Minor in the east, where a district still ..... Click the link for more information.	Brythonic		Breton, Cornish, Welsh
	Continental		Gaulish^*
	Goidelic or Gaelic		Irish Irish language, also called Irish Gaelic and Erse, member of the Goidelic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Celtic languages ). ..... Click the link for more information. (Irish Gaelic), Manx^*, Scottish Gaelic
Germanic Germanic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by about 470 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. ..... Click the link for more information.	East Germanic		Burgundian^, Gothic Gothic language, dead language belonging to the now extinct East Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). .....* Click the link for more information. ^, Vandalic^
	North Germanic		Old Norse^* (see Norse Norse, another name for the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). ..... Click the link for more information. ), Danish Danish language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The official language of Denmark, it is spoken by over 5 million people, most of whom live in Denmark; however, there are some ..... Click the link for more information. , Faeroese, Icelandic Icelandic language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Spoken chiefly in Iceland, where it is the official language, it stems from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings who settled ..... Click the link for more information. , Norwegian Norwegian language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 4 million people in Norway and another million in the other Scandinavian countries and North America. ..... Click the link for more information. , Swedish Swedish language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is the official language of Sweden and one of the official languages of Finland, and it is spoken by about 9 million people: ..... Click the link for more information.
	West Germanic (see Grimm's law Grimm's law, principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822 and a continuing subject of interest and investigation to 20th-century linguists. ..... Click the link for more information. )	High German	German German language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). It is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland. ..... Click the link for more information. , Yiddish Yiddish language (yĭd`ĭsh) ..... Click the link for more information.
		Low German	Afrikaans Afrikaans (ăf'rəkäns`) ..... Click the link for more information. , Dutch Dutch language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Also called Netherlandish, it is spoken by about 15 million inhabitants of the Netherlands, where it is the national ..... Click the link for more information. , English English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. ..... Click the link for more information. , Flemish Flemish language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Generally regarded as the Belgian variant of Dutch (see Dutch language ) rather than as a separate tongue, Flemish is ..... Click the link for more information. , Frisian Frisian language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). It has a number of dialects and is spoken by more than 300,000 people, most of whom speak West Frisian and live in ..... Click the link for more information. , Plattdeutsch (see German language)
Greek Greek language, member of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European ). It is the language of one of the major civilizations of the world and of one of the greatest literatures of all time. ..... Click the link for more information.			Aeolic^, Arcadian^, Attic^, Byzantine Greek^, Cyprian^, Doric^, Ionic^, Koinē^, Modern Greek
Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages , table). ..... Click the link for more information.	Dardic or Pisacha		Kafiri, Kashmiri, Khowar, Kohistani, Romany Romany (rŏm`ənē, rō`–) ..... Click the link for more information. (Gypsy), Shina
	Indic or Indo-Aryan		Pali Pali (pä`lē), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. ..... Click the link for more information. ^, Prakrit Prakrit (prä`krĭt), any of a number of languages belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European .....* Click the link for more information. ^, Sanskrit Sanskrit (săn`skrĭt), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages .....* Click the link for more information. ^, Vedic^
		Central Indic	Hindi Hindi (hĭn`dē), language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. ..... Click the link for more information. , Hindustani Hindustani (hĭnd ..... Click the link for more information. , Urdu Urdu (r`d ..... Click the link for more information.
		East Indic	Assamese, Bengali (Bangla), Bihari, Oriya
		Northwest Indic	Punjabi, Sindhi
		Pahari	Central Pahari, Eastern Pahari (Nepali), Western Pahari
		South Indic	Marathi (including major dialect Konkani), Sinhalese (Singhalese)
		West Indic	Bhili, Gujarati, Rajasthani (many dialects)
	Iranian		Avestan^, Old Persian^
		East Iranian	Baluchi, Khwarazmian^, Ossetic, Pamir dialects, Pashto (Afghan), Saka (Khotanese)^, Sogdian^*, Yaghnobi
		West Iranian	Kurdish, Pahlavi (Middle Persian)^, Parthian^, Persian Persian language, member of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian languages). The official language of Iran, it has about 38 million speakers in Iran and another 8 million in Afghanistan. ..... Click the link for more information. (Farsi), Tajiki
Italic Italic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy. ..... Click the link for more information.	(Non-Romance)		Faliscan^, Latin Latin language, member of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Latin was first encountered in ancient times as the language of Latium, the region of central Italy in which Rome is located (see Italic languages ). .....* Click the link for more information. , Oscan^, Umbrian^
	Romance Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages ). Also called Romanic, they are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the ..... Click the link for more information. or Romanic	Eastern Romance	Italian Italian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). The official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, Italian is spoken by about 58 ..... Click the link for more information. , Rhaeto-Romanic Rhaeto-Romanic (rē`tō-rōmăn`ĭk) ..... Click the link for more information. , Romanian Romanian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is spoken by about 22 million people in Romania, where it is the official language, by 3 million people in Moldova, and by ..... Click the link for more information. , Sardinian
		Western Romance	Catalan Catalan language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 8 million people in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and part of Aragon in Spain, in the region of Roussillon in SE France, ..... Click the link for more information. , French French language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is spoken as a first language by more than 70 million people, chiefly in France (55 million speakers), Belgium (3 million), ..... Click the link for more information. , Ladino, Portuguese Portuguese language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, chiefly in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic (11 million ..... Click the link for more information. , Provençal, Spanish Spanish language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). The official language of Spain and 19 Latin American nations, Spanish is spoken as a first language by about 330 million persons ..... Click the link for more information.
Slavic Slavic languages, also called Slavonic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Because the Slavic group of languages seems to be closer to the Baltic group than to any other, some scholars combine the two in a Balto-Slavic subfamily of the ..... Click the link for more information. or Slavonic	East Slavic		Belarusian (White Russian), Russian Russian language, also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). ..... Click the link for more information. , Ukrainian
	South Slavic		Bulgarian Bulgarian language, member of the South Slavic group of the Slavonic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Bulgarian is the native tongue of some 9 million people, most of whom live in Bulgaria, where it is the official language. ..... Click the link for more information. , Church Slavonic Church Slavonic, language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although it is still the liturgical language of most branches of the Orthodox Eastern Church, Church Slavonic is ..... Click the link for more information. ^, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian (sûr`bō-krōā`shən) .....* Click the link for more information. , Slovenian
	West Slavic		Czech Czech language (chĕk), in the past sometimes also called Bohemian, member of the West Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the ..... Click the link for more information. , Kashubian, Lusatian (Sorbian or Wendish), Polabian^, Polish Polish language, member of the West Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Polish is spoken as a first language by about 38 million people in Poland, where it is the official language; by more than 1 .....* Click the link for more information. , Slovak
Thraco-Illyrian			Albanian, Illyrian^, Thracian^
Thraco-Phrygian			Armenian Armenian language, member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European ). There is evidence that in ancient times a distinct subfamily of Indo-European languages existed that is now called Thraco-Phrygian. ..... Click the link for more information. , Grabar (Classical Armenian)^, Phrygian^
Tokharian (W China)			Tokharian A (Agnean)^, Tokharian B (Kuchean)^

^* Asterisk indicates a dead language.