The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. Contemporary languages in this family include Hindi, Bengali, German, English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (each with more than 100 million native speakers), as well as numerous smaller national or minority languages. Indo-European has the largest numbers of speakers of recognised families of languages in the world today, with its languages spoken by approximately 3 billion native speakers (the Sino-Tibetan family of tongues has the second-largest number of speakers). Some researchers have proposed other, more controversial supergroupings.
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Gheg
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Gheg Albanian
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Tosk
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Arbëreshë Albanian, Arvanitika Albanian, Tosk Albanian.
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Eastern
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Latvian, Lithuanian.
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Western
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Prussian
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Insular
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Brythonic: Breton, Cornish, Welsh;
Goidelic: Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Manx.
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East Scandinavian
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Danish-Swedish, Bokmål Norwegian, Danish, Jutish, Dalecarlian, Scanian, Swedish
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West Scandinavian
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Faroese, Icelandic, Jamtska, Nynorsk Norwegian, Norn
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Western Frisian, Northern Frisian, Saterfriesisch
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German
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- Middle German: Standard German, Lower Silesian, Upper Saxon, Luxembourgeois, Mainfränkisch, Pennsylvania German, Pfaelzisch, Limburgisch, Kölsch,
- Upper German: Colonia Tovar German, Schwyzerdütsch, Swabian, Walser, Bavarian, Cimbrian, Hutterite German, Mócheno,
- Frankish.
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Yiddish
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Eastern Yiddish, Western Yiddish
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- Low Saxon-Low Franconian
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Eastern Frisian
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Low Franconian
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Afrikaans, Dutch, Vlaams, Zeeuws
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Low Saxon
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Achterhoeks, Drents, Gronings, Plautdietsch, Sallands, Low Saxon, Stellingwerfs, Twents, Veluws, Westphalien
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Attic
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Cappadocian Greek, Greek, Ancient Greek, Pontic, Yevanic.
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Doric
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Tsakonian
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Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
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Romance
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Belarusan, Rusyn, Russian, Ukrainian.
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Eastern
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Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian
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Western
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Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian
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Czech-Slovak
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Czech, Knaanic, Slovak
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Lechitic
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Kashubian, Polish, Polabian
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Sorbian
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Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian
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