The Indo-Euro Lowdown

Hey. I promised info on language families and classification. Here is the lowdown on our own language family -- Indo-European. Sub-families are in red, sub-groups are in orange, and actual languages are in yellow.


Indo European

Germanic
West Germanic
Afrikaans Spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia. About 7 million speakers.
Dutch Spoken in the Netherlands and parts of Africa and the Caribbean. 17 million speakers.
English Speakers are extremely widespread. Used on every continent. 309 million speakers.
Flemish Spoken in Belgium. 4 million speakers
Frisian Spoken in the Netherlands and Germany. About 1 million speakers.
German Spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, other parts of Europe. 95 million speakers.
Yiddish Spoken by many Jews in eastern Europe and Israel. 3 million speakers.
North Germanic
Danish Spoken in Denmark. 5 million speakers.
Faeroese Spoken in the Faeroe Islands. 50,000 speakers.
Icelandic Spoken in Iceland. 300,000 speakers.
Norwegian Spoken in Norway. 4 million speakers.
Swedish Spoken in Sweden. 8 million speakers.

Romance
Catalan Spoken in northeastern Spain. 6 million speakers.
Corsican Spoken on the French island of Corsica. 402,000 speakers.
French Spoken in France, parts of Africa and the Pacific. 64 million speakers.
Galician Spoken in northwestern Spain. 3 million speakers.
Italian Spoken in Italy, San Marino, the Vatican, and Malta. 61 million speakers.
Latin Not spoken actively. Used by Catholic officials in the Vatican and around the world.
Portuguese Spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and parts of west Africa. 180 million speakers.
Rhaetian Spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland. About 400,000 speakers.
Romanian Spoken in Romania and Moldova. 24 million speakers.
Sardinian Spoken on the Italian island of Sardinia. 2 million speakers.
Sicilian Spoken on the Italian island of Sicily. 5 million speakers.
Spanish Spoken in Spain, much of Central and South America. 322 million speakers.

Slavic
Eastern Slavic
Belarussian Spoken in Belarus. 9 million speakers.
Russian Spoken in Russia and many other former Soviet nations. 145 million speakers.
Ukrainian Spoken in Ukraine. 40 million speakers.
Southern Slavic
Bulgarian Spoken in Bulgaria. 9 million speakers
Croatian Spoken in Croatia. 6 million speakers.
Macedonian Spoken in Macedonia. 2 million speakers.
Serbian Spoken in Serbia. 11 million speakers.
Slovene Spoken in Slovenia. 2 million speakers.
Western Slavic
Czech Spoken in the Czech Republic. 12 million speakers.
Slovak Spoken in Slovakia. 5 million speakers.
Sorbian Spoken in eastern Germany. About 40,000 speakers

Baltic
Latvian Spoken in Latvia. 1.5 million speakers.
Lithuanian Spoken in Lithuania. 3 million speakers.

Celtic
Goidelic
Irish Spoken in parts of Ireland. 355,000 speakers.
Manx Nearly extinct, but spoken by about 80 people on the Isle of Man.
Scottish Spoken in parts of Scotland. 63,000 speakers.
Brythonic
Breton Spoken in northwestern France. About 1 million speakers.
Cornish Spoken in the British region of Cornwall. 600 speakers.
Welsh Spoken in Wales. 520,000 speakers.

Hellenic
Greek Spoken mainly in Greece and Cyprus. 13 million speakers.

Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Assamese Spoken in western India. 15 million speakers.
Bengali Spoken in Bengladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. 171 million speakers.
Bihari Spoken in northeastern India. 48 million speakers.
Dhivehi Spoken in the Maldives. 300,000 speakers.
Gujarati Spoken in western central India. 46 million speakers.
Hindi Spoken mainly in India. 180 million speakers.
Konkani Spoken in southeastern India. 8 million speakers.
Marathi Spoken in western central India. 68 million speakers.
Oriya Spoken in eastern central India. 32 million speakers.
Punjabi Spoken in India and Pakistan. 90 million speakers.
Rajasthani Spoken in India. about 80 million speakers.
Sanskrit Spoken by many scholars across India. 200,000 fluent speakers.
Sindhi Spoken in India and Pakistan. 21 million speakers.
Sinhala Spoken in Sri Lanka. 13 million speakers.
Urdu Spoken in India and Pakistan. 61 million speakers.
Iranian
Baluchi Spoken in Pakistan. 7 million speakers.
Farsi Persian Spoken in Iran and Afghanistan. 32 million speakers.
Kurdish Spoken by Kurds scattered over much of the Middle East. 16 million speakers.
Osettic Spoken in Russia and Georgia (the nation, not the U.S. state). 700,000 speakers.
Pashto Spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 21 million speakers.
Tajik Spoken in Tajikistan. 4 million speakers.

Other
Albanian Spoken in Albania. 5 million speakers.
Armenian Spoken mainly in Armenia. 7 million speakers.