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Indo-European languages

Indo-European languages
noun plural Date: 1843 a family of languages comprising those spoken in most of Europe and in the parts of the world colonized by Europeans since 1500 and also in Persia, the subcontinent of India, and some other parts of Asia

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

  
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