"Some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language."
An exploration of European languages and linguistics, including the origins of languages, language families, and language change, as well as language policy and planning in Europe.
Phonology: The study of sounds and pronunciations in a language.
Morphology: The study of word formation and structure in a language.
Syntax: The study of sentence structure in a language.
Semantics: The study of meaning in a language.
Pragmatics: The study of language use and its effect on communication.
Historical linguistics: The study of the origins and evolution of a language.
Sociolinguistics: The study of language in relation to social factors.
Dialectology: The study of regional variations in a language.
Language acquisition: The study of how humans learn language.
Psycholinguistics: The study of the mental processes involved in language use and understanding.
Contrastive linguistics: The study of the differences between two or more languages.
Translation studies: The study of the processes and challenges of translating between different languages.
Computational linguistics: The study of how computers can be used to analyze and process language.
Language policy: The study of how governments and institutions regulate language use and development.
European languages: The study of the languages spoken in the countries of Europe, including their histories, structures, and variations.
Romance Languages: This group includes languages that evolved from Latin, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian.
Germanic Languages: These languages include English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish.
Slavic Languages: This group includes languages like Russian, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian.
Celtic Languages: The Celtic group consists of languages like Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic.
Baltic Languages: These are languages spoken in the Baltic region, such as Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
Finno-Ugric Languages: This group comprises languages such as Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.
Indo-European Languages: They are spoken in various parts of Europe and Asia, including Hindi, Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, and Persia.
Turkic Languages: These are spoken in regions such as Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, and include languages such as Turkish, Uzbek, and Kazakh.
Albanian: This is a unique Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro.
Basque: This language is spoken in the Basque region primarily in Spain and France.
Others: Other European languages include Maltese, Romani, and Yiddish.
"The three largest phyla in Europe are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic."
"They have more than 200 million speakers each."
"Together, they account for close to 90% of Europeans."
"Romance, Germanic, and Slavic [...] have more than 200 million speakers each."
"Hellenic (Greek, c. 13 million), Baltic (c. 7 million), Albanian (c. 5 million), Celtic (c. 4 million), and Armenian (c. 4 million)."
"Indo-Aryan, though a large subfamily of Indo-European, has a relatively small number of speakers in Europe (Romani, c. 1.5 million)."
"Most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families."
"Basque (language isolate), Semitic languages (Maltese, c. 0.5 million), and various languages of the Caucasus."
"[They] amount to about 4% of the population."
"Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe."
"English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language."
"The Indo-European language family."
"Approximately 45 million Europeans speaking non-Indo-European languages."
"Arabic being the most widely spoken of them."
"Italian [has] more than 50 million native speakers in Europe."
"English [has] some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language."
"A total European population of 744 million as of 2018."
"Albanian (c. 5 million), Celtic (c. 4 million), and Armenian (c. 4 million)."
"Romance, Germanic, and Slavic [account for] close to 90% of Europeans."