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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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