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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.
The Indo-Hittite hypothesis proposes that the Indo-European language family consists of two main branches: one represented by the Anatolian languages and another branch encompassing all other Indo-European languages. Features that separate Anatolian from all other branches of Indo-European (such as the gender or the verb system) have been ...
The Indo-European language family is descended from Proto-Indo-European, which is believed to have been spoken thousands of years ago.Early speakers of Indo-European daughter languages most likely expanded into Europe with the incipient Bronze Age, around 4,000 years ago (Bell-Beaker culture).
Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 345 million 264 million 609 million Spanish (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 484 million 74 million 558 million Modern Standard Arabic (excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 0 [a] 332 million 335 million French (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 74 million 238 million 312 million Bengali ...
1.1 Spoken language families. 1.2 Sign language families. 2 See also. 3 References. 4 External links. ... Distribution of the Indo-European language family branches ...
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic ...
Languages with at least 50 million first-language speakers [7] Language Native speakers (in millions) Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese: 990 Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: Spanish: 484 Indo-European: Romance: English: 390 Indo-European: Germanic: Hindi: 345 Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: Portuguese: 250 Indo-European: Romance: Bengali: 242 Indo ...