Indo-European languages
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This page provides a classification of the Indo-European languages and analyses of the major European languages.
For an overview of the Indo-European languages, including spread and classification, please see Wikipedia's article on Indo-European languages.
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[edit] Germanic Languages
- 'Western Germanic'
- Afrikaans
- Dutch
- English
- Old English (OE:Anglo-Saxon; spoken between approx. 450 - 1100 AD)
- 'Middle English (ME:Anglo-Norman; spoken between approx. 1100 - 1500 AD)
- 'Early Modern English (EMnE; spoken between approx. 1500 - 1650 AD)
- 'Modern English (MnE; spoken beginning approx. 1650 - present) However, there are some divergent dialects of Modern English where phonology and orthography vary, particularly among British English (including South African English, Australian English, etc.) and North American English.
- Flemish
- b:German
- Yiddish
- Minor languages: Frisian, Luxembourgian
- Northern Germanic (Scandinavian)'
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Minor languages: Faeroese
[edit] Romance Languages
- French
- b:Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- b:Spanish
- Minor languages: b:Catalan, Provencal, Rhaeto-Romanic, Sardinian, Moldovan
[edit] Slavic Languages
- 'Western
- Czech
- Polish
- Slovak
- Sorbian (also called Lusatian or Wendish - a Slavic language spoken by an isolated group in East Germany)
- Eastern
- Belarussian
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Southern
- b:Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Macedonian
- b:Serbian
- Slovenian
[edit] Baltic
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
[edit] Celtic
- Brythonic
- Goidelic
- Irish
- b:Irish
- Scottish Gaelic
- b:Scottish Gaelic
- Manx
[edit] Hellenic (Greek)
[edit] Albanian
[edit] Armenian
[edit] Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan (Indic)
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Bihari
- Gujarati
- Hindi(हिन्दी)
- Urdu (اردو)
- Marathi
- Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)
- Romani
- Sanskrit
- Sindhi
- Singhalese
- Iranian
- Avestan
- Baluchi
- Persian
- Kurdish
- Pashto (Afghan)
- Sogdian
