Indo-European Languages

dark green-countries with a majority of speakers of Indo-European languages
light green-countries with an Indo-European minority language with official status

-the most widely spoken family of languages in the world.

-contains the subfamilies Albanian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Indo-Iranian, Italic (includes the Romance languages), Slavic, Anatolian (extinct), and Tocharian (extinct).

-about 1.6 billion people speak Indo-European languages today.

-has a close relationship to Sanskrit and Greek

-originally was highly inflected, but there has been an inflection decay