Languages of Europe
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).
The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language.
These languages were created artificially ("planned").
The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.
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.
Goidelic (Gaelic)
The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
- Bulgarian
- Serbo-Croatian (sociolinguistically, 3 different languages):
not yet classified, lists very incomplete
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)
See also European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages