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Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct.
In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch. [1]
Afro-Asiatic in the form of the Egyptian and Semitic languages and; Indo-European (Anatolian languages and Mycenaean Greek). In East Asia towards the end of the second millennium BC, the Sino-Tibetan family was represented by Old Chinese. There are also a number of undeciphered Bronze Age records: the Proto-Elamite script
The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor, Ancient Iran and Southern Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages. The oldest Indo-European language texts are Hittite and date from the 19th century BC in Kültepe ...
Indo-European: 0s BC [116] Veneto: Adriatic Veneti: Vestinian: Indo-European: 100s BC [117] Abruzzo: Vestini: Volscian: Indo-European: 200s BC [118] Volscia Volsci: Welsh Romani: Indo-European: 1950 AD [119] Wales: Romani: West Galindian: Indo-European: 1300s AD [120] Prussia: Western Galindians: Wursten Frisian: Indo-European: 1810–1830s AD ...
4 Indo-European languages. 5 Indigenous languages of the Americas. 6 Sino-Tibetan languages. ... This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages ...
The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite , which is considered the earliest-attested Indo-European language.
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.