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English: A map showing the approximate present-day distribution of the Indo-European branches within their homelands of Europe and Asia. The following legend is given in the chronological order of the earliest surviving written attestations of each branch:
   Italic (includes Romance) [3]
   Celtic [4]
   Non-Indo-European languages
Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common (more visible upon full enlargement of the map).
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Source For the names of the branches, see citations in legend (based on "Indo-European Languages". The College of Liberal Arts. UT Austin. 2008.) and "Indo-European languages" from Britannica.com.

The distribution is essentially and approximately based on the map "Indo-European languages – Approximate locations of Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia" from Britannica.com, although with the following minor modifications:

The two articles "Balto-Slavic languages" and "Indo-Iranian languages" from Britannica.com stress the lack of scholarly consensus on these branches. That is, for the former, whether Baltic and Slavic developed from a common ancestral language, or that the similarities are the result of parallel development and of mutual influence during a long period of contact. To cater for both scholarly viewpoints, this map shows Baltic and Slavic with two distinct shades of green under "Balto-Slavic". For the latter, the dispute is whether the Indo-Iranian languages include just the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (or, Indic) language groups, or Nūristānī and Bangani too. To prevent disagreement (and also because this map only represents the primary branches of Indo-European), all of Indo-Iranian is represented with one shade.

The article "Romance languages" from Britannica.com states that the Romance languages form "a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family".

It should be noted that this map is only approximative and simplified, and glosses over some multilingual areas (particularly in eastern Russia, which is difficult to represent accurately). For some areas, more regional maps have been used as sources for greater accuracy, namely "Languages of Switzerland" from Ethnologue.com, "Russia ethnic plurality" from Freelang.net, "Major ethnic groups in Central Asia" from Globalsecurity.org, and "South Asian Language Families" from "Language families and branches, languages and dialects in A Historical Atlas of South Asia". Oxford University Press. New York 1992.
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current18:42, 31 March 2018Thumbnail for version as of 18:42, 31 March 20181,479 × 1,479 (574 KB)MaphobbyistRemoved area that exactly corresponds to the non-Indo European Lezgi linguistic area.
21:37, 6 September 2016Thumbnail for version as of 21:37, 6 September 20161,479 × 1,479 (620 KB)Rob984Georgia and Azerbaijan aren't majority multilingual. Older generations speak Russian from the Soviet era but now English is taught mainly in place of Russian. More people speak English in Finland, yet that isn't coloured. Also corrections to Celtic are...
05:46, 13 July 2016Thumbnail for version as of 05:46, 13 July 20161,479 × 1,361 (288 KB)UnghhgReverted to version as of 17:31 13 September 2015 not GE
11:57, 19 January 2016Thumbnail for version as of 11:57, 19 January 20161,479 × 1,361 (372 KB)Ercwlffmarking georgia as partially russian speaking state is wrong because there is less than 1% russian minority there and only less than 25 % of citizens can speak russian fluently
17:31, 13 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 17:31, 13 September 20151,479 × 1,361 (288 KB)AnonMoosrestore transparency which got lost in 2012
22:25, 11 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 22:25, 11 September 20151,479 × 1,361 (367 KB)ViuserChances in Romania, Moldova, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and West Ukraine. Mostly linked to Romanian language distribution and minority's in Romania.
22:37, 2 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 22:37, 2 September 20151,479 × 1,361 (417 KB)फ़िलप्रोminor edit to northeast india based on census 2001, appropriate colour switch to show distinctiveness
22:35, 6 August 2013Thumbnail for version as of 22:35, 6 August 20131,479 × 1,361 (426 KB)YerevanciArmenian
13:46, 24 October 2012Thumbnail for version as of 13:46, 24 October 20121,479 × 1,361 (339 KB)Hayden120Kurdish fixes
14:08, 20 May 2012Thumbnail for version as of 14:08, 20 May 20121,479 × 1,361 (337 KB)Hayden120minor tweaks
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