European languages
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 belong to European language families (such as Afrikaans).
Basque
The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language.
Caucasian languages
Constructed languages
These languages were artificially created ("planned").Finno-Ugric languages
The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.
Indo-European languages
Most European languages are Indo-European languages. This large language-family is decended from a common language that was spoken thousands of years ago, which is referred to as Proto Indo-European.Albanian
Armenian
Baltic languages
- Curonian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Old Prussian
Celtic languages
Brythonic
Goidelic (Gaelic)
Germanic languages
North Germanic languages
West Germanic languages
East Germanic languages
Italic languages
Romance languages
The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.Slavic languages
West Slavic languages
East Slavic languages
South Slavic languages
- Bulgarian
- Serbo-Croatian (sociolinguistically, 3 different languages):
not yet classified, lists very incomplete
- Romany
- Ossetian language
- Greek
- Kashub
Others of note
These are languages of non-European origins which are spoken in parts of Europe.
- Maltese (Semetic language, derived from Arabic)
- Turkish (Turkic Altaic language)
