The Indo-European languages

Primary Language Family

• This is a family of 449 languages.
• There are about 3.2 billion native speakers. It is the largest language family on the planet by number of native speakers.
• About 70% of the known languages are in the Indo-Iranian branch of the family.

The major sub-families include:

• Italic (45 languages)  

  • Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian

• Germanic (47 languages)

  • English, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

• Indo-Iranian (314 languages)

  • Sanskrit

  • Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi

  • Persian (Farsi), Pashto, the Kurdish languages

• Balto-Slavic (25 languages)

  • Lithuanian, Latvian

  • Polish, Russian, Bulgarian

• Hellenic (6 languages)

  • Ancient Greek -> Modern Greek

• Celtic (6 languages)

  • Modern Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic

• Armenian (2 languages)

  • Armenian

• Albanian (4 languages) 

  • Albanian