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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]
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.
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.
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*Kurdish have significant minority language without offical status. So color of turkey is changed. *North cyprus is seperate republic(de-facto) and do not have ie language spokens. 01:25, 6 May 2015: 940 × 477 (1.24 MB) Denereri *Kurdish have significant minority language without offical status. So color of turkey is changed.
Non-Indo-European languages Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common (more visible upon full enlargement of the map). Polski: Współczesne rozmieszczenie głównych gałęzi języków indoeuropejskich w Eurazji .
Indo-European–Eskimo–Aleutian Russian–Aleutian Mednyj Aleut; Indo-European–Japanese English–Japanese Bonin English, a mix of Japanese and English Creole[40] Indo-European–Pama–Nyungan English–Warlpiri Light Warlpiri; English–Gurindji Gurindji Kriol; Indo-European–Turkic Greek–Turkish Cappadocian Greek; Indo-European–Semitic
The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia. Subcategories