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The main language families spoken in Europe

The Indo-European family: its nine groups and their main languages.
The Indo-European family: its nine groups and their main languages.

The languages of Europe belong to a few large families, themselves divided into groups. Click a language to open its page.

language presented on this site other language of the group

Indo-European family

Germanic group

Slavic group

Albanian group

Greek group

Armenian group

  • Armenian

Indo-Iranian group

  • Bengali
  • Hindi
  • Persian (Farsi)
  • Romani
  • Urdu

Baltic group

  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian

Uralic family

Ugric group

Finno-Permic group

Turkic family

Oghuz group

Kipchak group

Language isolate

Basque

Sources

  1. Turkic languages (the 2003 CD wrongly grouped Tatar with Azeri; Tatar is a Kipchak language, while Azeri, Gagauz and Turkish are Oghuz languages) : Tatar, North Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish — Glottolog 5.3, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.