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Adapted from David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Major branches of Slavic language family, and examples of languages
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
| East Slavic | South Slavic | West Slavic |
| Russian Ukrainian Byelorussian |
Slovenian Serbo-Croatian Macedonian Bulgarian |
Czech Slovak Polish |
Major branches of Germanic language family, and examples of languages
| (East Germanic) | North Germanic | West Germanic |
| (Gothic) | Icelandic Farose Norwegian Danish Swedish |
German Dutch Frisian English Afrikaans Yiddish |
Major branches of Celtic language family, and examples of languages
| Insular | Continental | |
| Brythonic | Goidelic | |
| Welsh Breton (Cornish) |
Irish [=Irish Gaelic] Scots Gaelic |
(Gaulish) |
Major branches of Romance language family, and examples of languages
| Eastern | Western | ||
| Ibero-Romance | Gallo-Romance | ||
| Italian Rumanian |
Spanish Portuguese Catalan |
French Occitan Romansch |
Sardinian |
Major branches of Hellenic language family, and examples of languages
| Greek |
Major branches of Albanian language family, and examples of languages
| Albanian |
Major branches of Armenian language family, and examples of languages
| Armenian |
Major branches of Baltic language family, and examples of languages
| Latvian | Lithuanian |
Major branches of Indo-Iranian language family, and examples of languages
| Iranian | Indic |
| Persian [=Farsi] Pashto Kurdish |
Hindi-Urdu Bengali Punjabi Marathi Gujarati Romany [=Gypsy] |
Adapted from William O'Grady, Michael Dobrovolsky, and Mark Aronoff,
Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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