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 …

Of all the Indo-European languages still spoken, only two South Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian,14 have some remnants of the Indo-European pitch (or intonation) stress. Just glancing at one word in Lithuanian (in its declensional pattern) will suffice to see the intricacy of the Lithuanian accentuation system.

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.

Proto-Indo-European ( PIE) is the theorized common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is ...

22/02/2019 · However, not every European language is an Indo-European language. There are a few outliers, remanents of the cultures that existed before the Indo-European expansion. Here are six European languages that are not part of the Indo-European language family. Finnish. Spoken in: Finland and parts of Sweden Number of Native Speakers: 5.4 million