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Most of the many Language s of Europe belong to the Indo-European Language Family . Another major family is the Finno-Ugric . The Turkic family also has several European members. The North and South Caucasian Families are important in the southeastern extremity of geographical Europe. Basque is a Language Isolate . As yet this list does not include languages spoken by relatively recently-arrived migrant communities. ALTAIC LANGUAGES Mongolic languages Turkic languages Northwestern Turkic (Kypchak) languages
Southwestern Turkic (Oghuz) languages Bolgar languages BASQUE The Basque Language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a Language Isolate , and as such is not related to any other language. This language may date back 7,000 years, before waves of Indo-European speaking peoples settled in Europe, but didn't penetrate the area of northern Spain and southwest France until the first millennia AD. The language is also spoken by immigrants in Australia, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, and the USA {Link without Title} . FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic Language Family .
NORTH CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES Northwest Caucasian languages Northeast Caucasian languages MALTESE Maltese is a Semitic Language spoken in Malta and related to Arabic but written with the Latin Script . It is the smallest official language of the EU in terms of speakers. SOUTH CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES Most European languages are Indo-European languages. This large language-family is descended from a common language that was spoken thousands of years ago, which is referred to as '' Proto-Indo-European ''. Albanian The language, also known as Shqip is made up of two major dialects, Geg and Tosk spoken in the country of Albania , by Albanian speaking minorities in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , in Kosovo , Serbia , and some Albanian speakers living in parts of Montenegro , also southern parts of Italy and many other European countries. Armenian The Armenian Language is widely spoken as the majority language in Armenia which was under the Soviet Union until 1991. There are Armenian speakers in globally scattered communities of the Armenian Diaspora in Europe, the Middle East , and the Americas (in North and South America). Baltic languages
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