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 potentially 10th non-Indo-European language to this list, though it be an unofficial idiom not heard in any one given locale within Europe: Romany, the language of the roaming gypsies. Though historically Romany evolved in India, the gypsies (from the word Egypt) speak a language that contains outside influences as well, from other language sources.

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