An introduction to languages of Europe: Part 1



An introduction to languages of Europe: Part 1

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Language branches of Europe

Indo-European family:

Germanic

Italic

Celtic

Slavic

Balto-Slavic

Greek

Albanian

Uralic Family:

Finno-Ugric

Altaic Family:

Turkic

Isolate:

Basque

Indo-European families that are not represented in Europe: Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Anatolian, and Tocharian

Label each country with its main language/languages and its corresponding language branch. The languages are not given to you.

Estonia:

Greece:

Italy:

Austria:

Sweden:

Finland:

Switzerland:

Belgium:

Croatia:

Portugal:

Iceland:

Latvia:

Macedonia:

Serbia/Montenegro:

Moldova:

Belarus:

Albania:

Slovakia:

Czech Republic:

Slovenia:

Netherlands:

Lithuania:

Romania:

Bulgaria:

Hungary:

Turkey:

Denmark:

Iceland:

Ukraine:

Poland:

Bosnia/Herzegovina

Ireland:

England:

France:

Germany:

Russia:

After you have labeled these countries, look at the list of minority/regional languages below. Regional languages are languages that are a majority in one country, but have a minority status in bordering countries. None of these languages are immigrant languages. Which country or countries are these languages spoken in?

Basque

Catalan

Cornish

Welsh

Flemish

Occitan

Romani

Sami

Sardinian

Gaelic

Yiddish

Galician

Frisian

Briton

Corsican

Regional Minorities:

Danish

Hungarian

Albanian

Romanian

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