Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries.

You may have noticed that a few languages spoken on the European continent are not included in the Indo-European family of languages. Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian belong to the Uralic (also called Finno-Ugric) family, and Basque (spoken in the Pyrenees region) has no genetic relation to any other language.

All Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime in the Neolithic era….Indo-European languages.

Just as languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian are all descended from Latin, Indo-European languages are believed to derive from a hypothetical language known as Proto-Indo-European, which is no longer spoken.

Marathi developed in the Indic family of languages from the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Its immediate ancestor was Vedic Sanskrit. Marathi is most closely related to Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Assamese, Punjabi, Sindhi, Singhalese, Romany, and Urdu.

Latin is part of the Indo-European family of languages which came from an unknown common root language; Proto Indo-European. Sanskrit, Latin, Celtic and Germanic languages are (among others)said to belong to the Indo-European family. Japanese however is not part of a large family of languages.

Russian (русский язык, tr. russkiy yazyk) is an East Slavic language native to Russia in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of four living East Slavic languages, and also part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch.

Urdu language, member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-European family of languages. Urdu is spoken as a first language by nearly 70 million people and as a second language by more than 100 million people, predominantly in Pakistan and India.

You may have noticed that a few languages spoken on the European continent are not included in the Indo-European family of languages. Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian belong to the Uralic (also called Finno-Ugric) family, and Basque (spoken in the Pyrenees region) has no genetic relation to any other language. Two branches, Anatolian and Tocharian, are also not included in this diagram because they are considered extinct.

The Indo European family of languages consists of English and a host of other European dialects. It also includes Persian and Hindi dialects.

These are the main Indo-European language groups: Albanian Anatolian: Luwian; Hittite Armenian Balto-Slavic Baltic ( Latvian and Lithuanian) Slavic (such as Polish, Russian, and Serbian) Celtic (such as Irish and Welsh) Germanic (such as English, German, and Swedish) Greek (and modern Greek) Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan languages (Indic) Iranian

The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, which is considered the earliest-attested Indo-European language.