THE LANGUAGES OF EUROPE

The Indo-European Language Family

• The Indo-European language families are all over Europe and many parts of Asia.

• Half of the World speaks Indo-European.

The Indo European Language is broken down into subfamilies like:

Romance, Germanic, and Slavic

The Romance Language includes: French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian,

and Portuguese

The Germanic language includes: English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish

The Slavic languages include: Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-

Croatian, and Bulgarian

• The Latin based tongues is survived in the Slavic invasion

• The Romania Latin origin is in five countries

• The French language extends to many countries.

• The Celtic language is in the northeast• The Romance language goes into northern

Europe.

• The Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are part of the Uralic Family

• The Uralic family goes to Eurasia to the pacific Coast

• The Altaic family includes Turkish, Kazakh, Uigur, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek languages

• The Altaic family is mostly located in the middle east