The Indo-European Family of Languages
| Subfamily |
Group |
Subgroup |
Languages and Principal Dialects | | Anatolian |
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Hieroglypic Hittite*, Hittite (Kanesian)*, Luwian*, Lycian*, Lydian*, Palaic* |
| Baltic |
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Latvian (Lettish), Lithuanian, Old Prussian* |
| Celtic |
Brythonic |
|
Breton, Cornish*, Welsh |
| Continental |
|
Gaulish* |
| Goidelic or Gaelic |
|
Irish (Irish Gaelic), Manx*, Scottish Gaelic |
| Germanic |
East Germanic |
|
Burgundian*, Gothic*, Vandalic* |
| North Germanic |
|
Old Norse* (see Norse), Danish, Faeroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish |
West Germanic
(see Grimm's law) |
High German |
German, Yiddish |
| Low German |
Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, Frisian, Plattdeutsch (see German language) |
| Greek |
|
|
Aeolic*, Arcadian*, Attic*, Byzantine Greek*, Cyprian*, Doric*, Ionic*, KoinE*, Modern Greek |
| Indo-Iranian |
Dardic or Pisacha |
|
Kafiri, Kashmiri, Khowar, Kohistani, Romany (Gypsy), Shina |
| Indic or Indo-Aryan |
|
Pali*, Prakrit*, Sanskrit*, Vedic* |
| Central Indic |
Hindi, Hindustani, Urdu |
| East Indic |
Assamese, Bengali, Bihari, Oriya |
| Northwest Indic |
Punjabi, Sindhi |
| Pahari |
Central Pahari, Eastern Pahari (Nepali), Western Pahari |
| South Indic |
Marathi (including major dialect Konkani), Sinhalese (Singhalese) |
| West Indic |
Bhili, Gujarati, Rajasthani (many dialects) |
| Iranian |
|
Avestan*, Old Persian* |
| East Iranian |
Baluchi, Khwarazmian*, Ossetic, Pamir dialects, Pashto (Afghan), Saka (Khotanese)*, Sogdian*, Yaghnobi |
| West Iranian |
Kurdish, Pahlavi (Middle Persian)*, Parthian*, Persian (Farsi), Tajiki |
| Italic |
(Non-Romance) |
|
Faliscan*, Latin, Oscan*, Umbrian* |
| Romance or Romanic |
Eastern Romance |
Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Sardinian |
| Western Romance |
Catalan, French, Ladino, Portuguese, ProvenCal, Spanish |
| Slavic or Slavonic |
East Slavic |
|
Belarussian (White Russian), Russian, Ukrainian |
| South Slavic |
|
Bulgarian, Church Slavonic*, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian |
| West Slavic |
|
Czech, Kashubian, Lusatian (Sorbian or Wendish), Polabian*, Polish, Slovak |
| Thraco-Illyrian |
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Albanian, Illyrian*, Thracian* |
| Thraco-Phrygian |
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Armenian, Grabar (Classical Armenian)*, Phrygian* |
| Tokharian (W China) |
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Tokharian A (Agnean)*, Tokharian B (Kuchean)* |
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