indo-european language

Noun
  1. The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia (synset 106954406)
    is a type of: natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
    subtypes:
    • pie, proto-indo european - a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
    • albanian - the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania
    • armenian, armenian language - the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan
    • illyrian - a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast
    • thraco-phrygian - an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian
    • balto-slavic, balto-slavic language, balto-slavonic - a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
    • germanic, germanic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
    • celtic, celtic language - a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era
    • italic, italic language - a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
    • tocharian - a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.
    • indo-iranian, indo-iranian language - the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
    • anatolian, anatolian language - an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
    • greek, hellenic, hellenic language - the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
    same as: indo-european, indo-hittite

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