Indo-European

language family native to western and southern Eurasia— Europe, Iran and India
Language language_family Q19860
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Indo-European

Summary

Indo-European is a language family[1]. Indo-European ranks in the top 0.099% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,428 views/month, #1 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Indo-European is identified as part of the Yamnayan ethnic group[3].
  • Indo-European is credited with the discovery of William Jones[4].
  • Indo-European's image is recorded as IndoEuropeanTree.svg[5].
  • Indo-European's instance of is recorded as language family[6].
  • India is named after Indo-European[7].
  • Europe is named after Indo-European[8].
  • Indo-European's follows is recorded as Proto-Indo-European[9].
  • Indo-European's ISO 639-2 code is recorded as ine[10].
  • Indo-European's ISO 639-6 code is recorded as ineu[11].
  • Indo-European's GND ID is recorded as 4114006-0[12].
  • Indo-European's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85065703[13].
  • Indo-European's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11932222t[14].
  • Indo-European's IdRef ID is recorded as 027236293[15].
  • Indo-European's GOST 7.75–97 code is recorded as ино 208[16].
  • Indo-European's subclass of is recorded as human language[17].
  • Indo-European's subclass of is recorded as Eurasiatic[18].
  • Indo-European's IETF language tag is recorded as ine[19].
  • Indo-European's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564144[20].
  • Indo-European's Commons category is recorded as Indo-European languages[21].
  • Indo-European's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 9[22].
  • Indo-European's has part is recorded as Indo-Iranian[23].
  • Indo-European's has part is recorded as Germanic languages[24].
  • Indo-European's has part is recorded as Celtic languages[25].
  • Indo-European's has part is recorded as Balto-Slavic[26].
  • Indo-European's has part is recorded as Anatolian[27].

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Origins and Family

Indo-European is identified as part of the Yamnayan ethnic group[3].

Works and Contributions

Indo-European is credited with the discovery of William Jones[4].

Why It Matters

Indo-European ranks in the top 0.099% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,428 views/month, #1 of 1,012).[2] Indo-European has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Indo-European is known by 227 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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