European languages
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).
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Basque
The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language.
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.
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Armenian
[edit]Baltic languages
[edit]Celtic languages
[edit]Brythonic
[edit]Goidelic (Gaelic)
[edit]Germanic languages
[edit]North Germanic
(descending from Old Norse)
- West (Insular) Scandinavian
- East (Continental) Scandinavian
[edit]West Germanic
- High Germanic languages
- German
- Middle German
- East Middle German
- Luxembourgeois
- West Middle German
- Pennsylvania German (spoken by the Amish and other groups in southeastern Pennsylvania)
- Upper German
- Swiss German, Austrian, etc
- Alsatian
- Hutterite German (aka "Tirolean")
- Yiddish
- Low German
- Anglo-Frisian
- Frisian
- Anglic (descending from Anglo-Saxon)
[edit]East Germanic
(descending from Gothic)
- Burgundian (extinct)
- Crimean Gothic (extinct in the 1800s)
- Lombardic (extinct)
- Vandalic (extinct)
[edit]Greek
[edit]Italic languages
[edit]Romance languages
The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
[edit]Ibero-Romance languages
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Catalan
- Mozarabic
- Portuguese
- European Portuguese
- Brazilian Portuguese
- African Portuguese
- Judeo-Portuguese
- Simple Portuguese
- Portuguese Creole
- Galician
- Eonaviegan (a Galician dialect with some traits of Asturian)
- Fala language (spoken in a valley of the northwestern part of Spanish Extremadura)
- Portuñol
- Spanish
[edit]Gallo-Romance languages
[edit]Italo-Romance languages
[edit]Rhaeto-Romance languages
[edit]Daco-Romance languages
[edit]Indo-Iranian languages
[edit]Indo-Aryan languages
[edit]Iranian languages
[edit]Slavic languages
[edit]West Slavic languages
[edit]East Slavic languages
[edit]South Slavic languages
- Bulgarian
- Old Church Slavonic
- Macedonian
- Bosnian (previously part of Serbo-Croatian)
- Croatian (previously part of Serbo-Croatian)
- Serbian (previously part of Serbo-Croatian)
- Slovene
- Romano-Serbian (a mixed language)
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Languages by geographical region