Indo-European languages
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For other meanings see Indo-European (disambiguation) </DD></DL><TABLE class=toccolours style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0.5em 1em" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 border=0><TBODY><TR><TH style="BACKGROUND: #ccf; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Indo-European</TH></TR><TR><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; PADDING-LEFT: 0em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Indo-European languages</TD></TR><TR><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Albanian |
Anatolian
Armenian |
Baltic |
Celtic
Germanic |
Greek |
Indo-Iranian
Italic |
Slavic |
Tocharian</TD></TR><TR><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; PADDING-LEFT: 0em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Indo-European peoples</TD></TR><TR><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Albanians |
Anatolians
Armenians |
Balts |
Celts
Germanic peoples |
Greeks
Indo-Aryans |
Iranians
Italic peoples |
Slavs |
Tocharians</TD></TR><TR><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; PADDING-LEFT: 0em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Proto-Indo-Europeans</TD></TR><TR><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Language |
Society |
Religion
Kurgan |
Yamna |
Corded Ware</TD></TR><TR><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; PADDING-LEFT: 0em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
Indo-European studies</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The
Indo-European languages comprise a
family of several hundred
languages and dialects (443 according to the
SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of
Europe, as well as many in
Southwest Asia,
Central Asia and
Southern Asia. Contemporary languages in this family include
Hindi,
Bengali,
German,
English,
Portuguese,
Russian,
Spanish (each with more than
100 million native speakers), as well as numerous smaller national or minority languages. Indo-European has the largest numbers of speakers of recognised families of languages in the world today, with its languages spoken by approximately 3 billion native speakers (the
Sino-Tibetan family of tongues has the second-largest number of speakers). Some researchers have (controversially) proposed other supergroupings.