WebThe Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several …

WebMost 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, Germanic, and Slavic, they have more than 200 million speakers each and together …

WebThe Frisian languages are a group of languages spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. West Frisian [clarification needed], by far the most spoken of the three main branches, constitutes an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland.

Web13/06/2018 · The West Germanic language is spoken mainly in northern Germany. The language is quite distinct from Standard German and more closely related to English, Frisian, and Dutch. There are about 5 million native speakers of Low German in Germany. ... Romani and Danish are the two other minority languages spoken in the country. Around …

Web20/09/2021 · 1. English ‘ The ‘ is the word believed to be the most common word in one of the world’s most widely spoken languages, English. With around 1.135 billion total speakers, the most spoken language in the world is English, and it’s the official language in 67 countries.

WebLanguage families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.A family is a monophyletic unit; all its members derive from a common ancestor, and all attested descendants of that ancestor are included in the family. (Thus, …

WebTop languages by population Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition). The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first language speakers in the 2022 edition of Ethnologue, a language reference published by SIL International. Entries identified by Ethnologue as macrolanguages (such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese, …

WebOld High German evolved from about 500 AD. Around 1200 the Swabian and East Franconian varieties of Middle High German became dominant as a court and poetry language under the rule of the House of Hohenstaufen.. The term "High German" as spoken in central and southern Germany (Upper Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria) …

WebThe East Germanic languages, also called the Oder–Vistula Germanic languages, are a group of extinct Germanic languages that were spoken by East Germanic peoples.East Germanic is one of the primary branches of Germanic languages, along with North Germanic and West Germanic.. The only East Germanic language of which texts are …

WebProto-Germanic. All Germanic languages derive from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), which is generally thought to have been spoken between 4500 and 2500 BCE. The ancestor of Germanic languages is referred to as Proto- or Common Germanic, and likely represented a group of mutually intelligible dialects. They share distinctive characteristics …