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| Define what is family of languages? What is
the signifcance of the Indo-European family
2.3
of languages and why do we need to know
about it in the context of English Language
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Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer:

"Indo-European" redirects here. For Eurasian people living in or connected with Indonesia, see Indo people. For other uses, see Indo-European (disambiguation).

Indo-European

Geographic

distribution Pre-colonial era: Eurasia

Today: Worldwide

c. 3.2 billion native speakers

Linguistic classification One of the world's primary language families

Proto-language Proto-Indo-European

Subdivisions

Albanian

Armenian

Balto-Slavic (Baltic and Slavic languages)

Celtic

Germanic

Greek

Indo-Iranian (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and Nuristani)

Italic (including Romance languages)

Anatolian †

Illyrian †(?)

Daco-Thracian †(?)

Tocharian †

Phrygian †

ISO 639-2 / 5 ine

Glottolog indo1319[1]

Indo-European branches map.svg

Present-day distribution of Indo-European languages in Eurasia:

 Albanian

 Armenian

 Balto-Slavic (Baltic)

 Balto-Slavic (Slavic)

 Celtic

 Germanic

 Greek

 Indo-Iranian (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and Nuristani)

 Romance

 Non-Indo-European languages

Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common

Notes

Italicized branches mean only one extant language of the branch remains

† indicates this branch of the language family is extinct

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The Indo-European languages are a large language family native to western Eurasia. It comprises most of the languages of Europe together with those of the northern Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. A few of these languages, such as English and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across all continents. The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, the largest of which are the Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, and Balto-Slavic groups. The most populous individual languages within them are Spanish, English, Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu), Portuguese, Bengali, Punjabi, and Russian, each with over 100 million speakers. German, French, Marathi, Italian, and Persian have more than 50 million each. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language, by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to the estimate by Ethnologue, with over two thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.[2]

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