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A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1][2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
The following map shows the language families of Europe (distinguished by colour) and languages within those families. Note that the terms “language” and “dialect” are not mutually exclusive, and some of the languages shown in the map may be considered dialects of others.
It covers six language families present on the European continent: Altaic, Basque, Indo-European, Caucasian, Semitic and Uralic; these families are divided into 22 linguistic groups comprising 90 languages and dialects. The data were collected in 2631 localities.
This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article "List of proposed language families".
18 mar 2015 · Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total population of 740 million, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language. 5 languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, German, French, Italian, and English
22 wrz 2023 · About 94% of Europeans speak languages from the enormous “Indo-European” (IE) language family. The “Indo” part shows that it also has an Eastern branch, which includes Hindi and Persian. This family’s original location isn’t clear, but it was perhaps around the Black Sea and the Caucasian Mountains in Eastern Europe.
10 wrz 2024 · Indo-European languages, family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The 10 main branches of the family are Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Germanic, Armenian, Tocharian, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian.
