Language families in brief
Geographical distributions • Baltic languages: spoken in two of the three Baltic states of
Northeastern Europe (Latvia, Lithuania)
• Celtic languages: spoken in Western Europe (Ireland, Brittany, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales)
• Finno-Ugric/Uralic languages: non-Indo European languages; spoken in Hungary, Finland, and Estonia
• Germanic languages: spoken in Northern, Western, and Central Europe
• Romance languages: spoken in Western, Southern, Southwestern, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe
• Slavic languages: spoken in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe; also North Asia
• Turkic languages: spoken in the Caucasus (Azerbaijan), the Middle East (Turkey), and Central Asia (except for Tajikistan)
• Other Indo-European: Albanian, Armenian, Greek
Color-coded language families map
Key• Baltic=light green
• Celtic=orange
• Finno-Ugric/Uralic=gray
• Germanic=red
• Romance=blue
• Slavic=dark green
• Albanian=sky blue
• Greek=yellow orange
Language Unions (cont.)
Finno-Ugric/Uralic Union• Estonia
• Finland
• Hungary
Germanic Union• Austria
• Belgium (also part of the Latin Union)
• Denmark
• Germany
• Iceland
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg (also part of the Latin Union)
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Sweden
• Switzerland (also part of the Latin Union)
• United Kingdom
Language Unions (cont.)
Latin Union• Andorra
• France
• Italy
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Portugal
• Romania
• San Marino
• Spain
• Vatican City
Slavic Union• Belarus
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Macedonia
• Montenegro
• Poland
• Russia
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Ukraine
EU languages
• Bulgarian (Slavic)
• Croatian (Slavic)
• Czech (Slavic)
• Danish (Germanic)
• Dutch (Germanic)
• English (Germanic)
• Estonian (Finno-Ugric/Uralic)
• Finnish (Finno-Ugric/Uralic)
• French (Romance)
• German (Germanic)
• Greek (Hellenic)
• Hungarian (Finno-Ugric/Uralic)
• Irish/Gaelic (Celtic)
• Italian (Romance)
• Latvian (Baltic)
• Lithuanian (Baltic)
• Luxembourgish (Germanic)
• Polish (Slavic)
• Portuguese (Romance)
• Romanian (Romance)
• Slovak (Slavic)
• Slovene (Slavic)
• Spanish (Romance)
• Swedish (Germanic)
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