Baltic languages

A language group belonging to the Indo-European language family.

Germanic languages

A language family deriving from proto-Indo-European.

Indo-Aryan languages

A language family originating in central Asia around four thousand years ago from Indo-Iranian (an early Indo-European language). Te oldest Indo-Aryan language with a surviving literature is Sanskrit.

Indo-European languages

A group of several hundred related languages with a common ancestor. These include almost all the languages spoken in Europe and Southern Asia.

Proto-Germanic

The ancestor of modern Germanic languages.

West Germanic languages

A branch of the Germanic language family (including Afrikaans, English, Dutch and German).