Indo-European Leids: Leid faimily
The Indo-European leids maks up a faimily o several hunder sib leids an dialects, includin maist o the major leids o Europe, the northren Indie subcontinent (Sooth Asie), the Iranian plateau (Soothwast Asie), an a muckle pairt o Central Asie.
Indo-European (Indo refers tae the Indie subcontinent) haes the lairgest nummers o speakers o the recognised faimilies o leids in the warld the day, wi its leids spoken bi aboot three billion native speakers.
O the tap 20 contemporar leids in terms o hamespun speakers gaun by SIL Ethnologue, 12 is Indo-European: Spaingie, Inglish, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Roushie, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi an Urdu, accoontin for ower 1.6 billion hamespun speakers. The Indo-Iranian leid forms the lairgest sub-brainch o Indo-European in terms o the nummer o hamespun speakers as weel as in terms o the nummer o indiveedual leids. (see List o leids by nummer o hamespun speakers). Historically, in terms o geographical spreid an aw (stretchin frae the Caucasus tae Sooth Asie; c.f. Scythie).
Brainches
- Albainien leid
- Anatolian leids
- Armenie leid
- Balto-Slavic leids
- Baltic leids
- Slavic leids
- Celtic leids
- Germanic leids
- Hellenic leids (Greek)
- Indo-Iranian leids
- Indo-Aryan leids
- Iranian leids
- Italic leids
- Tocharian leids
References
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