Indo-European
language family native to western and southern Eurasia— Europe, Iran and India
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Summary
Indo-European is a language family[1]. Indo-European ranks in the top 0.099% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43,862 views/month, #1 of 1,012).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Yamnayan[3]
- Discoverer or inventor: William Jones[4]
- Named after: India[5], Europe[6]
- Follows: Proto-Indo-European[7]
- Subclass of: human language[8], Eurasiatic[9]
- Commons category: Indo-European languages[10]
- Has part(s): Indo-Iranian[11], Germanic languages[12], Celtic languages[13], Balto-Slavic[14], Anatolian[15], Tocharian[16], Hellenic[17], Italic[18], Albanian[19], Armenian[20], Illyrian[21], Thracian[22], Liburnian[23], Lusitanian[24]
- Topic's main category: Category:Indo-European languages[25]
- Described at URL: http://www.sorosoro.org/famille-des-langues-indo-europeennes/[26]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3,390,000,000[27], 3,320,000,000[28], 3,300,000,000[29], 2,721,969,619[30], 2,562,896,428[31], 2,916,732,355[32], 2,925,253,210[33], 2,913,575,380[34], 2,974,405,732[35], 3,077,112,005[36], 3,089,785,971[37], 3,237,999,904[38], 3,240,000,000[39], 3,290,000,000[40]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[41], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[42], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[43]
- Topic has template: Template:Indo-European languages[44]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C160962[45]
- Short name: Indogermanisch[46], Indoeuropäisch[47], Indo-Hethitisch[48]
Why It Matters
Indo-European has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Indo-European is known by 257 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]