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Languages of Europe. A color-coded map of languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [ 1][ 2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
Linguistic map of Europe. Languages of Europe. North Germanic West Germanic. Celtic. Western Romance Italian / Southern Romance. Eastern Romance Basque. East Slavic West Slavic. South Slavic. Baltic.
Eurolinguistics. Eurolinguistics is a neologistic term for the study of the languages of Europe . The term Eurolinguistics was first used by Norbert Reiter in 1991 (German equivalent: Eurolinguistik ). Apart from a series of works dealing with only a part of the European languages, the work of Harald Haarmann pursues a "pan- or trans-European ...
Description. Simplified Languages of Europe map.svg. Map of main European languages simplified by following national borders in many cases. The map does not reflect the fact that many regions are bilingual, officially and/or in practice. In some cases, the area indicated for a language reflects where some of its speakers live but not ...
Atlas Linguarum Europae. The Atlas Linguarum Europae (literally Atlas of the Languages of Europe, ALE in acronym) is a linguistic atlas project launched in 1970 with the help of UNESCO, and published from 1975 to 2007. The ALE used its own phonetic transcription system, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet with some modifications.
The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – have the status of "procedural" languages [ 1] of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages ). [ 2] The three procedural languages are those used in the day-to-day workings of ...
The various regional and minority languages in Europe encompass four categories: The language of a community in one single country, where the language community is not the linguistic majority, e.g. Sorbian in Germany, or Welsh in the United Kingdom. The language of a community in two or more countries, in neither of which they are the ...
L1+L2: c. 100 million in European Russia, 39 million in Ukraine, 7 million in Belarus, 7 million in Poland, 2 million in Latvia, c. 2 million in the European portion of Kazakhstan, 1.8 million in Moldova, 1.1 million in Estonia. Russian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required).