Indo-European language - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asianatural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language Proto-Indo European, PIE - a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages Albanian - the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania Illyrian - a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast Thraco-Phrygian - an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian Germanic, Germanic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic Celtic, Celtic language - a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era Italic language, Italic - a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative Tocharian - a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D. Anatolian, Anatolian language - an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European |