Most of the many indigenous languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. The scope of this article also includes languages spoken outside of continental Europe that linguistically belong to European language families (such as Afrikaans, Pennsylvania German and Persian).
The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language.
These languages were artificially created ("planned").
Of these, Esperanto is by far the most widely used, and speakers of the others are mostly native speakers of European languages.
Spoken in Tuscany (Italy) and surrounding areas before the Roman rule, now extinct.
The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.
Most European languages are Indo-European languages. This large language-family is descended from a common language that was spoken thousands of years ago, which is referred to as Proto-Indo-European.
(descending from Old Norse)
- West (Insular) Scandinavian
- East (Continental) Scandinavian
(descending from Gothic)
The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
Italo-Romance languages
Daco-Romance languages
Phrygo-Armenian languages
Thracian languages
Others of note
These are some other languages which are spoken in parts of Europe:
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