QUESTION:
Which nine (9) languages that are spoken in present-day Europe are
not
in the Indo-European family?
(Indo-European is one of about 225 language families worldwide)
In the early Middle Ages, the people of the Iberian Peninsula spoke Latini, which had derived from Latin and was to become Romanzo, the earliest name for Spanish.
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Sir William Jones (1748-1794) Lingüist and jurist who discovered an etymological connection between English and Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, in 1783. |
Actually, we can add a potential 10th non-Indo-European language to this list, though it be an unofficial idiom not heard in any one given locale within Europe: Romani, the language of the roaming gypsies.
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