Home›Eurasian Language Families›Region›Northern EuropeBrowse ByNorthern EuropeRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.Northern EuropeComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Northern EuropeFilter Results5 entriesMacro-areaAllIndo-European Branches (3)Indo-European: Balto-Slavic Branch (2)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (1)Uralic Language Family (2)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllGermanic (1)Indo-European (1)Speaker Count BandAll798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (2)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (2)Classification StatusAllEstablished (3)Number of LanguagesAll2 (1)16 to 1,408 (1)6 to 15 (1)In GroupAllIndo-European: Balto-Slavic Branch (2)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (1)Uralic Language Family (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 5Balto-SlavicNorthern EuropeEast BalticNorthern EuropeFinno-Ugric languagesNorthern EuropeNorth GermanicNorthern EuropeUralic-Yukaghir hypothesisNorthern EuropeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.