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    250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018...
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    The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent...
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    Paleo-European languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and...
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  • all languages in Europe. The CEFR was established by the Council of Europe between 1986 and 1989 as part of the "Language Learning for European Citizenship"...
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    The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – were considered "procedural" languages but this notion...
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  • List of European languages List of extinct languages of Europe List of endangered languages in Russia List of endangered languages in Asia Moseley, Christopher...
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    pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor...
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    The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Outside of these states, it has official status...
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  • 16th century, European visitors to the Indian subcontinent became aware of similarities between Indo-Iranian languages and European languages, and as early...
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    Europe portal Language portal Euromosaic European languages Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Languages of the European Union...
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  • list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. In linguistics, Serbo-Croatian is synonymous with standardised varieties of Shtokavian...
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  • page is a list of lists of languages. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International...
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  • list of languages and dialects that have no native speakers, no spoken descendants, and that diverged from their parent language in Europe. Europe portal...
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    Year of Languages (2001), which had been jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union. Its aim is to encourage language learning...
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    European (SAE) is a concept originally introduced in 1939 by American linguist Benjamin Whorf to group the modern Indo-European languages of Europe with...
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    The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first...
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    Vasconic languages (from Latin vasco 'Basque') are a putative family of languages that includes Basque and the extinct Aquitanian language. The extinct...
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    Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən), are spoken predominantly in Europe and...
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    of Europe is Russian, which belongs to the group of Slavic languages. Languages that are not official state languages are protected in many European countries...
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    The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains...
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    speakers use Indo-European languages, making them by far the largest language family. Of the 20 world languages with the largest numbers of native speakers...
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  • languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language...
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    This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese...
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  • pre-Indo-European languages of Europe, e.g. Lemnian, Etruscan, Ligurian. Karel Oštir's (1921) version of Alarodian included all aforementioned languages, further...
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    languages compared with other Slavic languages. Sorbian alphabet List of Sorbian-language writers Low Lusatian German White Serbia "Sorbian languages"...
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    analysis of their names indicate that it was an Indo-European language, more specifically from the Iranic group of Indo-Iranic languages. Most of the Scythian...
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  • these Indo-European languages of the centum group, and Proto-Slavic and Proto-Baltic, of the satem group. A group of Tyrrhenian languages appears to have...
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    Spanish, Japanese, Turkish, and other languages. German language in the Basic Law "Europeans and their Languages". europa.eu. June 2012. Archived from...
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  • The Paleo-Balkan languages are a geographical grouping of various Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans and surrounding areas in ancient...
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    Lemnian and Raetic languages. James Mellaart has proposed that this language family is related to the pre-Indo-European languages of Anatolia, based upon...
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