European languages Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Most of the many indigenous languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. The scope of this article also includes languages spoken outside of continental Europe that linguistically belong to European language families (such as Afrikaans, Pennsylvania German and Persian).
Basque
The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language.
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Constructed languages
These languages were artificially created ("planned").Etruscan
Spoken in Northern Italy before the Roman rule, now extinct.Finno-Ugric languages
The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.Indo-European languages
Most European languages are Indo-European languages. This large language-family is descended from a common language that was spoken thousands of years ago, which is referred to as Proto-Indo-European.
Albanian
Armenian
Baltic languages
Celtic languages
Brythonic
Goidelic (Gaelic)
Germanic languages
North Germanic
(descending from Old Norse)
West Germanic
East Germanic
(descending from Gothic)
Greek
Italic languages
Romance languages
The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
Ibero-Romance languages
Gallo-Romance languages
Italo-Romance languages
Rhaeto-Romance languages
Daco-Romance languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Iranian languages
Phrygo-Armenian languages
Slavic languages
West Slavic languages
East Slavic languages
South Slavic languages
Thracian languages
Others of note
These are languages of non-European origins which are spoken in parts of Europe.
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