Indo-European languages

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This page provides a classification of the Indo-European languages and analyses of the major European languages.

For an overview of the Indo-European languages, including spread and classification, please see Wikipedia's article on Indo-European languages.

## Germanic Languages

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* Western Germanic
* Anglo-Frisian
* English Languages/Anglic
* Old English (OE:Anglo-Saxon; spoken between approx. 450 - 1100 CE)
* Middle English (ME:Anglo-Norman; spoken between approx. 1100 - 1500 CE)
* Yola Language (spoken between ? - mid-16th century CE)
* Early Modern English (EMnE; spoken between approx. 1500 - 1650 CE)
* Modern English (MnE; spoken beginning approx. 1650 - present) However, there are some divergent dialects of Modern English where phonology and orthography vary, particularly among British English (including South African English, Australian English, etc.) and North American English.
* Scots
* Early Scots (spoken between approx. ? - 1450 CE)
* Middle Scots (spoken between 1450 - 1700 CE)
* Modern Scots
* Frisian Languages
* West Frisian
* Saterland Frisian
* North Frisian
* Middle Frisian (spoken between approx. 1500 - 1820 CE)
* Old Frisian (spoken between approx. 700 - 1500 CE)
* Low German
* Dutch Low German
* West Low German
* East Low German
* Low Franconian Languages (sometimes defined as separate branch of West German)
* Afrikaans
* Dutch
* Flemish
* High German
* b:German
* Yiddish
* Luxembourgish
* Central German Dialects
* Upper German Dialects
* Vilamovian
* Northern Germanic (Scandinavian)
* Danish
* Icelandic
* Norwegian
* Swedish
* Faeroese
* Norn
* Elfdalian
* East Germanic (extinct)
* Gothic
* Crimean Gothic
* Vandalic
* Burgundian

## Romance Languages

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* Western Romance
* Gallo-Romance
* French
* Norman
* Picard
* Walloon
* Francoprovençal
* Occitano-Romance
* Occitan
* b:Catalan/Valencian
* Aragonese
* Ibero-Romance
* b:Spanish
* Astur-leonese
* Asturian
* Leonese
* Mirandese
* Extremaduran
* Galician-Portuguese
* Galician
* Portuguese
* Fala
* Gallo-Italic
* Piedmontese
* Ligurian
* Emilian-Romagnol
* Lombard
* Rhaeto-Romance
* Friulian
* Ladin
* Romansch
* Italo-Dalmatian
* b:Italian
* Venetian
* Istriot
* Dalmatian (extinct, spoken until the 19th century)
* Tuscan
* Corsican
* Neapolitan
* Sicilian
* Southern Romance
* Sardinian
* African Romance (extinct)
* Eastern Romance
* Romanian
* Aromanian
* Megleno-Romanian
* Istro-Romanian

## Slavic Languages

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* 'Western
* Czech
* Polish
* Slovak
* Sorbian (also called Lusatian or Wendish - a Slavic language spoken by an isolated group in East Germany)
* Eastern
* Belarussian
* Russian
* Ukrainian
* Southern
* b:Bulgarian
* Croatian
* Macedonian
* b:Serbian
* Slovenian

## Baltic

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* Latvian
* Lithuanian

## Celtic

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* Brythonic
* Breton
* Welsh
* b:Welsh Language
* Cornish
* Goidelic
* Irish
* b:Irish
* Scottish Gaelic
* b:Scottish Gaelic
* Manx

## Hellenic (Greek)

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## Albanian

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* Tosk
* Standard Albanian
* Arbëresh
* Arvanitiki
* Gheg

## Armenian

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## Indo-Iranian

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* Indo-Aryan (Indic)
* Assamese
* Bengali
* Bihari
* Gujarati(ગુજરાતી)
* HIndi(हिन्दी)
* Urdu(اردو)
* Marathi
* Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)
* Romani
* Sanskrit
* Sindhi
* Singhalese
* Iranian
* Avestan
* Baluchi
* Persian
* Kurdish
* Pashto (Afghan)
* Sogdian