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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.
The (late) Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of a common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, as spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans after the split-off of Anatolian and Tocharian. PIE was the first proposed proto-language to be widely accepted by linguists. Far more work has gone into reconstructing it than ...
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.
English: Map showing the homeland of the Indo-European language family according to the steppe hypothesis (dark green), within the approximate present-day distribution of Indo-European languages in Eurasia (light green). Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism with Non-Indo-European languages is common.
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 .
Three stand-alone Indo-European languages do not fall within larger sub-groups and are not closely related to those larger language families: Greek (about 12 million) Albanian (about 9 million) Armenian (about 3.5 million) In addition, there are also smaller sub-groups within the Indo-European languages of Europe, including:
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