English > Indo-European: 4 senses > noun 2, communication| Meaning | The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia. |
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| Synonyms | Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite |
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| Narrower | Albanian | The Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania |
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| Anatolian, Anatolian language | An extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European |
| Armenian, Armenian language | The Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan |
| Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic | A family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages |
| Celtic, Celtic language | A branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era |
| Germanic, Germanic language | A branch of the Indo-European family of languages |
| Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language | The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages |
| Illyrian | A minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages |
| Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language | The branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups |
| Italic, Italic language | A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative |
| Proto-Indo European, PIE | A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages |
| Thraco-Phrygian | An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian |
| Tocharian | A branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D. |
| Broader | natural language, tongue | A human written or spoken language used by a community |
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| Spanish | indoeuropeo, lengua indoeuropea |
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| Catalan | indoeuropeu, llengua indoeuropea |
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| Adjectives | Indo-European, Indo-Germanic | of or relating to the Indo-European language family |
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