Baltic languages

A language group belonging to the Indo-European language family including Latvian and Lithuanian.

Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, subdivided into North, West and East Germanic.

Indo-Aryan languages

A language family originating in central Asia around four thousand years ago from Indo-Iranian (an early Indo-European language).

The oldest Indo-Aryan language with a surviving literature is Sanskrit.

Indo-European languages

A group of several hundred related languages with a common ancestor. These include almost all the languages spoken in Europe and Southern Asia - including Germanic and romance languages.

North-Germanic

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages and include Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

Proto-Germanic

The ancestor of modern Germanic languages.

Romance languages

The Romance languages are a language family within the Indo-European languages - descending from Latin.

The Romance languages include Catalan, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Italian, Romanian, and Spanish.

West Germanic languages

The West Germanic languages are the largest of the branches of the Germanic language family of and include Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, German, Low German languages and Yiddish.