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This list is of Indo-European languages. These languages all sprung from a common source called Proto-Indo-European . Armenian. Albanian. Baltic languages. Latvian. Lithuanian. Celtic languages. Goidelic languages.
Peoples and societies. Religion and mythology. Indo-European studies. v. t. e. Indo-European studies ( German: Indogermanistik) is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. [1]
For a list of words relating to Indo-European languages, see the Indo-European languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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.
Languages like English, which don't have a lot of combinations like that, come from earlier, more typical Indo-European languages. English comes from Anglo-Saxon , a Western Germanic language. The fact that English once was synthetic like German is shown by cranberry morphemes , which are so called because the "cran-" is a fossil of a word that no longer exists.
Finnish is a member of the Finnic group of the Uralic family of languages; as such, it is one of the few European languages that is not Indo-European. The Finnic group also includes Estonian and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in Russia's Republic of Karelia . Finnish demonstrates an affiliation with other Uralic ...
English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Old English originated from a Germanic tribal and linguistic continuum along the Frisian North Sea coast, whose languages gradually evolved into the Anglic languages in the British Isles , and into the Frisian languages and Low German /Low Saxon on the continent.
While accepted by a majority of linguists as a non-Indo-European language, many attempts have been made to link the Basque language with more geographically distant languages. Apart from pseudoscientific comparisons , the appearance of long-range linguistics gave rise to several attempts to connect Basque with geographically very distant language families.
