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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 linguistically belong to European language families (such as Afrikaans, Pennsylvania German and Persian).
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 artificially created ("planned").
4 EtruscanEtruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region of Etruria (current Tuscany) and in what is now Lombardy (where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls), in Italy. However, Latin completely superseded Etruscan, leaving only a few documents
Spoken in Northern Italy before the Roman rule, now extinct.
5 Finno-Ugric languagesThe Finno-Ugric languages form a subfamily of the Uralic languages. The majority of linguists believe that the Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian, among others should be included in the group. Unlike most of the other languages spoken in Europe, the Finno-Ug
The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language familyThe Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. The name of the language family references the location of the family's suggested Urheimat, which is often placed close to the Ural mountains..
- EstonianThe Estonian language eesti keel is spoken by about 1. 101 million people, of which the great majority live in the Republic of Estonia. Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. Estonian does not have any language-family relation
- Finnish
- HungarianThe Hungarian language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and in adjacent areas of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia (all territories lost after World War I). The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar''. There are
- Sami
Most European languages are Indo-European languages. This large language-family is descended from a common language that was spoken thousands of years ago, which is referred to as Proto-Indo-European.