Languages of Europe
Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language. Within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic, they have more than 200 million speakers each and together account for close to 90% of Europeans. Smaller phyla of Indo-European found in Europe include Hellenic (Greek, c. 13 million), Baltic (c. 7 million), Albanian (c. 5 million), Celtic (c. 4 million), Armenian (c. 4 million) and Indo-Aryan (Romani, c. 1.5 million).
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- enMost languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language. Within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic, they have more than 200 million speakers each and together account for close to 90% of Europeans. Smaller phyla of Indo-European found in Europe include Hellenic (Greek, c. 13 million), Baltic (c. 7 million), Albanian (c. 5 million), Celtic (c. 4 million), Armenian (c. 4 million) and Indo-Aryan (Romani, c. 1.5 million).
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- enMost languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language. Within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic, they have more than 200 million speakers each and together account for close to 90% of Europeans. Smaller phyla of Indo-European found in Europe include Hellenic (Greek, c. 13 million), Baltic (c. 7 million), Albanian (c. 5 million), Celtic (c. 4 million), Armenian (c. 4 million) and Indo-Aryan (Romani, c. 1.5 million). Of the approximately 45 million Europeans speaking non-Indo-European languages, most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families. Still smaller groups — such as Basque (language isolate), Semitic languages (Maltese, c. 0.5 million), and various languages of the Caucasus — account for less than 1% of the European population between them. Immigration has added sizeable communities of speakers of African and Asian languages, amounting to about 4% of the population, with Arabic being the most widely spoken of them. Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, French, Italian, German, and English. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See English language in Europe.)
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- Abkhaz language
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- Académie française
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- Adygea
- Adyghe language
- Albania
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- Albanian language
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- Ancient Greek language
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- Danish language
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- Definition of Europe
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- Domari language
- Doric Greek
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- East Cantons of Belgium
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- Eastern Armenian
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- Eastern Romance
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- East Franconian German
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- East Thrace
- Ecclesiastical Latin
- Egypt
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- Emilian dialects
- English as a second or foreign language
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- English language in Europe
- Eo-Navia (comarca)
- Erzya language
- Estonia
- Estonian language
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- Ethnic groups in Europe
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- European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
- European Day of Languages
- European English
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- Finland
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- Finnish language
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- Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
- France
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- French colonial empire
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- French Revolution
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- Friesland
- Frisian languages
- Frisians
- Friulan language
- Friuli
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- Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft
- Gagauzia
- Gagauz language
- Galicia (Spain)
- Galician language
- Galician-Portuguese
- Galindian language
- Gallo-Italic languages
- Gallo-Romance languages
- Georgia (country)
- Georgian language
- Georgian script
- Gerhard Rohlfs
- Germanic language
- Germanic languages
- German language
- German Sign Language
- German Sign Language family
- German-speaking Europe
- German-speaking Switzerland
- Germany
- Ghardaia Sign Language
- Gheg Albanian
- Gibraltar
- Goidelic languages
- Gothic language
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Greek alphabet
- Greek-Bovesian
- Greek diaspora
- Greek East and Latin West
- Greek language
- Griko
- Guernsey
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- Hanseatic League
- Hebrew language
- Hellenic languages
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- Hitler
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- Hungarian language
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- Indo-European languages
- Ingrian language
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- Insular Celtic languages
- International recognition of Kosovo
- Iranian languages
- Ireland
- Irish language
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- Isle of Man
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- Israel
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- Juhuri language
- Kabardian language
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- Kabyle language
- Kalmykia
- Kalmyk language
- Kalmyk Oirat
- Karachay-Balkar language
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- Karaim language
- Karelian language
- Kartvelian languages
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- Kazakh language
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- Kurdish language
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- Latvia
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- List of sovereign states
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- Lithuanian language
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- Lombard language
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- Mari language
- Maronite
- Medieval Greek
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- Megleno-Romanian language
- Middle Low German
- Mingrelian language
- Miranda do Douro
- Mirandese language
- Modern English
- Modern Greek
- Moksha language
- Moldova
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- Monégasque dialect
- Mongolic languages
- Montenegrin language
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- Mordovia
- Mount Athos
- Multilingual countries and regions of Europe
- Multilingualism
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- National language
- Nation state
- Native language
- Navarre
- Neapolitan language
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug
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- Netherlands
- New Latin
- New Spain
- New Zealand
- Nicosia
- Nord-Pas de Calais
- Norman language
- North Caucasian languages
- North Caucasus
- Northeast Caucasian languages
- Northern Asia
- Northern Cyprus
- Northern Europe
- Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Sign Language
- North Frisian language
- North Germanic languages
- North Macedonia
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- North Sea
- Northwest Caucasian languages
- Norway
- Norwegian language
- Norwegian Sign Language
- Occitan language
- Occitano-Romance languages
- Ogham
- Oghur languages
- Oghuz languages
- Old English language
- Old French
- Old Hungarian alphabet
- Old Italic alphabet
- Old Prussian language
- Opera
- Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts
- Ossetian language
- Ossetic language
- Ottoman Empire
- Palatine German language
- Peloponnese
- Persian language
- Phoenician alphabet
- Phonology
- Picard language
- Pidgin
- Piedmont
- Piedmontese language
- Pluricentric language
- Poland
- Polish language
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Polish Sign Language
- Pontic Greek
- Pontic Greek language
- Portugal
- Portuguese language
- Portuguese Sign Language
- Prekmurje
- Proto-Indo-European language
- Province of Belluno
- Province of León
- Province of Reggio Calabria
- Province of Zamora
- Punjabi language
- Pyrenees
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Real Academia Española
- Reconquista
- Renaissance
- Renaissance Latin
- Republic of Artsakh
- Republic of Ireland
- Republic of Kalmykia
- Republic of Karelia
- Republic of Kosovo
- Rhaeto-Romance languages
- Ripuarian language
- Romagnol dialects
- Roman Catholic church
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- Romance language
- Romance languages
- Romandy
- Roman Empire
- Romania
- Romanian language
- Romani language
- Runes
- Russia
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- Russian language
- Russian Sign Language
- Rusyn language
- Sachsen
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- Sami languages
- Samogitian language
- Samoyedic languages
- Samtskhe-Javakheti
- Sanabria (comarca)
- San Marino
- Sardinia
- Sardinian language
- Saterlandic
- Scandinavia
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Schwabacher
- Scotland
- Scots language
- Scottish Gaelic
- Scottish Gaelic language
- Selonian language
- Semigallian language
- Semitic language
- Semitic languages
- Serbia
- Serbian language
- Serbo-Croatian
- Shtokavian dialect
- Sicilian Arabic
- Sicilian language
- Sicily
- Silesian German
- Silesian language
- Slavic languages
- Slovakia
- Slovak language
- Slovene language
- Slovenia
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- Somali language
- Sorbian languages
- Southern Europe
- Southern Russia
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- South Slavic languages
- South Tyrol
- Southwest Caucasian languages
- Soviet Union
- Spain
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- Spanish language
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- Standard Average European
- Standard German
- Standard language
- Sudovian language
- Superpower
- Svan language
- Swabian German
- Sweden
- Swedish language
- Swedish Sign Language
- Swedish Sign Language family
- Swiss German
- Switzerland
- Tabasaran language
- Tamil language
- Tatar language
- Tatarstan
- Tat language (Caucasus)
- The Catholic Monarchs
- Thirty Years' War
- Tosk Albanian
- Toubon Law
- Transcontinental countries
- Travellingua
- Trentino
- Tsakonian language
- Turkey
- Turkic languages
- Turkish language
- Turkish Sign Language
- Turks in Europe
- Tuzi Municipality
- Udmurtia
- Udmurt language
- Ugric languages
- Ukraine
- Ukrainian language
- Ukrainian Sign Language
- Ulcinj Municipality
- Ulster
- United Kingdom
- United Nations
- United States
- Upper German
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- Upper Sorbian language
- Uralic languages
- Ural Mountains
- Urdu
- Uzbek language
- Val d'Aran
- Valencian Community
- Valencian Sign Language
- Varieties of Arabic
- Vatican City
- Venetian language
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- Veps language
- Vivaro-Alpine dialect
- Vocabulary
- Vojvodina
- Võro language
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- Vulgar Latin
- Wales
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- Walloon language
- Walser German
- Welsh language
- Western Armenian
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- Western Romance languages
- West Frisian languages
- West Germanic languages
- West Iberian languages
- West Low German
- West Slavic languages
- World War I
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- Wymysorys language
- Yenish language
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- Yiddish
- Yiddish language
- Yugoslav Sign Language
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