The first stage of the EDP
Societies and languages
The societies included in the first stage of the EDP speak languages for which comparative linguistic data are available in the comparative Indo-European database [1], or variants thereof, such as local dialects.
 
The map on the front page shows the location of the languages calculated as the midpoint of their geographic distribution [2]. Below you can browse the languages by name, by country, and by language phylum. Please contact us if you would like to contribute data for a society speaking another Indo-European language, or if the society is located in a country different from the one indicated below.
Languages by name [1]
A
    Afghan
    Albanian
    Armenian
B
    Baluchi
    Bengali
    Breton
    Bulgarian
    Byelorussian
C
    Catalan
    Croatian
    Czech
D
    Danish
    Dutch
E
    English
F
    Faroese
    Flemish
    French
    Frisian G
    German
    Greek
    Gujarati
    Gypsy Greek
H
    Hindi
I
    Icelandic
    Irish
    Italian
K
    Kashmiri
    Khaskura
L
    Ladin
    Lahnda
    Latvian
    Lithuanian
    Lusatian
M
    Macedonian
    Marathi
N
    Nepali
    Norwegian
O
    Ossetic
P
    Panjabi
    Persian
    Polish
    Portuguese
    Provençal
R
    Rumanian
    Russian
S
    Sardinian
    Serbian
    Singhalese
    Slovak
    Slovenian
    Spanish
    Swedish

T
    Tadžik
U
    Ukrainian
V
    Vlach
W
    Wakhi
    Walloon
    Waziri
    Welsh
 
Languages by country [3]
Albania
Albanian
Armenia
Armenian
Bangladesh
Bengali
Belarus
Byelorussian
Belgium
Flemish
Walloon
Bulgaria
Bulgarian
Croatia
Croatian
Czech Republic
Czech
Denmark
Danish
Faroese
France
Breton
French
Provençal
Georgia
Ossetic
Germany
German
Lusatian
Greece
Greek
Gypsy Greek
Vlach
Iceland
Icelandic
India
Gujarati
Hindi
Kashmiri
Marathi
Panjabi
Iran
Persian
Ireland
Irish
Italy
Italian
Ladin
Sardinian Latvia
Latvian
Lithuania
Lithuanian
Macedonia
Macedonian
Nepal
Khaskura
Nepali
Netherlands
Dutch
Frisian
Norway
Norwegian
Pakistan
Afghan
Baluchi
Lahnda
Wakhi
Waziri
Poland
Polish
Portugal
Portuguese
Russia
Russian
Serbia
Serbian
Slovakia
Slovak
Slovenia
Slovenian
Spain
Catalan
Spanish
Sri Lanka
Singhalese
Sweden
Swedish
Tajikistan
Tadžik
Ukraine
Ukrainian
United Kingdom
English
Welsh
 
Languages by phylum [3]
Albanian
    Albanian
Armenian
    Armenian
Baltic
    Latvian
    Lithuanian
Celtic
    Irish
    Welsh
Germanic
    Danish
    Dutch
    English
    Faroese
    Flemish
    Frisian
    German
    Icelandic
    Norwegian
    Swedish
Greek
    Greek Indo-Iranian
    Indo-Aryan
        Bengali
        Gujarati
        Gypsy Greek
        Hindi
        Kashmiri
        Khaskura
        Lahnda
        Marathi
        Nepali
        Panjabi
        Singhalese
    Iranian
        Afghan
        Baluchi
        Ossetic
        Persian
        Tadžik
        Wakhi
        Waziri

Italic
    Breton
    Catalan
    French
    Italian
    Ladin
    Portuguese
    Provençal
    Rumanian
    Sardinian
    Spanish
    Vlach
    Walloon









Slavic
    Bulgarian
    Byelorussian
    Croatian
    Czech
    Lusatian
    Macedonian
    Polish
    Russian
    Serbian
    Slovak
    Slovenian
    Ukrainian
 
Last updated 15 March 2007
© Laura Fortunato
References
  1. 1. ^ Dyen, I., Kruskal, J. B. & Black, P. (1992) An Indoeuropean classification: a lexicostatistical experiment. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 82(5), 1-132.
  2. 2. ^ Language data derived from WLMS 2005, www.gmi.org/wlms; map courtesy of Tom Currie.
  3. 3. ^ Gordon, R. G. Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th edition). Dallas, TX: SIL International, http://www.ethnologue.com/.