Languages in europe

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Languages in Europe

1. Germanic Languages
2. Latin Languages
3. Slavic Languages
4. Hellenic Languages
5. non Indonesian Languages

1.GERMANIC LANGUAGES
From: Germany,Holland, Belgium, Denmark and southern Norway and Sweden. The first documented Germanic language is the Gothic (fourth century), spoken by the Goths and survived in the Crimea peninsula to the modernage. Also very old are the runic alphabet inscriptions, engraved on weapons or jewelry, which provide information on other Germanic dialects. Is an Indo-European family: English, Scottish, German,Luxembourgish, Swedish, Icelandic, Danish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, and Norwegian...

2.LATIN LANGUAGES
Sometimes Roman is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Although oftenconsidered a dead language, in view of the fact that it has no native speakers, a small number of scholars and members of the clergy can fluently speak it, and it continues to be taught in schools anduniversities. Latin has been, and currently is, used in the process of new word production in modern languages from many different families, including English. Latin and its daughter Romance languagesis the only surviving branch of the Italic language family. Other branches, known as Italic languages, are attested in documents surviving from early Italy, but were assimilated during the RomanRepublic. The one possible exception is Venetia, the language of the people who settled Venetia, who in Roman times spoke their language in parallel with Latin.
Types
Classical Latin
Vulgar LatinMedieval Latin
Renaissance Latin

3.SLAVIC LANGUAGES
A group of closely relate languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, inmuch of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.
Types
East Slavic
West Slavic
South Slavic

4.HELLENIC LANGUAGES
Greek dialects are the Hellenic subfamily...
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