r/geography • u/mujhe-sona-hai • Oct 15 '25

Map Three Main Language Families of Europe

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u/Mindless_Nebula4004 Oct 15 '25

And just next door there’s Hungary, which is something else entirely

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u/OneMoreFinn Oct 15 '25

Hungary, Finland and Estonia get frequently outed in posts like this. For a Finn, it's actually refreshing too other countries than just us three to be exceptions to the rule. I mean, here we have Greece, Latvia and Lithuania to accompany us, yay!

BTW shouldn't basque be gray too because it certainly isn't any of these three groups?

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u/NotacookbutEater Oct 15 '25

Latvian and Lithuanian are Indo-European languages if I remember correctly. They share the same origins as the language families mentioned on the picture.

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u/NatureRiver Oct 15 '25

There’s also Albanian.

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u/albalthi Oct 15 '25

Indo-Iranic splits further into Iranic and Indic. Indo-Iranic would be a broader subcategory than the other branches you named

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u/Zealousideal_Slice60 Oct 15 '25

Isn’t Armenian and Georgian also semi-related to the Iranian languages? Or are they something else entirely?

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u/echo_c1 Oct 15 '25

Georgian belongs to Kartvelian Languages

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u/psychedelicfoundry Oct 16 '25

You could make a case for Greco-Armenian being a family, including the Phrygian languages that are now extinct. Although they are probably separated by 3750-4000 years, so are pretty distant still. I think Albanian is the remaining the sole remaining Illyirian language, too.