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European languages
Most of the about 40 indigenous
languages
of
Europe
belong to the
Indo-European language
family. Following the language name, within parentheses are noted the exceptions, naming the non-Indo-European language family they belong to:
Albanian
Asturian
Basque
(a
language isolate
)
Breton
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cornish
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
(
constructed language
)
Estonian
(
Finno-Ugric language
)
Finnish
(
Finno-Ugric language
)
French
Frisian
German
Greek
Hungarian
(
Finno-Ugric language
)
Italian
Irish
Kashub[?]
Latvian
Lithuanian
Low German/Low Saxon
Maltese
(
Semitic language
)
Norwegian
Occitan
Polish
Portuguese
Romansh
Romany
Rumanian
Russian
Saami
(
Finno-Ugric language
)
Sardinian
Scottish Gaelic
Serbo-Croatian
(sometimes considered to be 2 independent languages)
Spanish
Swedish
Swiss-German[?]
Welsh
See also
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
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