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Most of the many indigenous languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. The scope of this article also includes languages spoken outside of continental Europe that linguistically belong to European language families (such as Afrikaans, Pennsylvania German and Persian).
BasqueThe Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language. Caucasian languagesConstructed languagesThese languages were artificially created ("planned").
Of these, Esperanto is by far the most widely used, and speakers of the others are mostly native speakers of European languages. EtruscanSpoken in Tuscany (Italy) and surrounding areas before the Roman rule, now extinct. Finno-Ugric languagesThe Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family. Indo-European languagesMost European languages are Indo-European languages. This large language-family is descended from a common language that was spoken thousands of years ago, which is referred to as Proto-Indo-European.
Others of noteThese are languages of non-European origins which are spoken in parts of Europe.
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