This list is of Indo-European languages. These languages all sprung from a common source called Proto-Indo-European. 'Armenian; Albanian(Albania and Kosovo)' Baltic languages. Lithuanian language; Celtic languages. Goidelic languages; Brythonic languages; Germanic languages. North Germanic languages Danish; Norwegian; Swedish; West Germanic …

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to western and southern Eurasia.It comprises most of the languages of Europe together with those of the northern Indian subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau.Some European languages of this family, such as English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism …

Alemannic German terms that originate from Indo-European languages . This category should, ideally, contain only other categories. Entries can be categorized here, too, when the proper subcategory is unclear. If you know the exact language from which an entry categorized here is derived, please edit its respective entry.

The Indo-European family of languages include (please note that not every language is included): Italic Romance . Catalan; French ; Italian ; Occitan (Provençal) Portuguese; Romanian ; Spanish; Germanic North Germanic (Scandinavian) Danish ; Faroese ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Swedish ; …

These languages were mostly spoken in Europe, Middle East, including the ancient Anatolia, and the Indian subcontinent, accounting for nearly 40% of the world population or three billion people. Of the twenty largest languages spoken in the world, 12 belong to this group, namely, Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi, and Urdu.

The term Indo-European was introduced in 1816 by Franz Bopp of Germany and referred to a family of languages in Europe and Asia (including Northern India, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) that were found to have a remarkable structural relationship. It turns out that Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Old Irish, Gothic, Old Bulgarian, Old Prussian, and other languages …

The Germanic languages. English is a Germanic language as are German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic. This means that it belongs to an early grouping of Indo-European which distinguishes itself from other languages of this family by having undergone a series of changes to consonants in initial position.

Although the bulk of Germanic words have an Indo-European origin, a substantial number of fundamental vocabulary appears to be non-Indo-European, most probably inherited from the indigenous pre-Bronze-Age inhabitants of Scandinavia and/or North Germany. Sigmund Feist was the first to postulate this Germanic substrate hypothesis in 1932. Here are examples of pre-IE …

22/02/2019 · Around the world, 3.2 billion people speak an Indo-European language. That’s nearly 42% of the global population, and it makes Indo-European the most commonly spoken language family. There are 445 living Indo-European languages. Tribes who spoke Proto-Indo-European began spreading out through Asia and into Europe starting at around 4000 BCE.