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The '''Indo-European languages''' are a [[w:language family|family]] (or ''phylum'') of several hundred related [[w:List of Indo-European languages|languages and dialect]]s. There are about 439 languages and dialects, according to the 2009 [[Ethnologue]] estimate, about half (221) belonging to the [[w:Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] subbranch. The Indo-European family is significant to the field of [[w:historical linguistics|historical linguistics]] as possessing the second-longest [[w:recorded history|recorded history]], after the [[w:Afroasiatic languages|Afro-Asiatic family]]. | The '''Indo-European languages''' are a [[w:language family|family]] (or ''phylum'') of several hundred related [[w:List of Indo-European languages|languages and dialect]]s. There are about 439 languages and dialects, according to the 2009 [[w:Ethnologue|Ethnologue]] estimate, about half (221) belonging to the [[w:Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] subbranch. The Indo-European family is significant to the field of [[w:historical linguistics|historical linguistics]] as possessing the second-longest [[w:recorded history|recorded history]], after the [[w:Afroasiatic languages|Afro-Asiatic family]]. | ||
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