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Outline Indo-European Language family Dravidian Language Famliy Indo-European Language family The?Indo-European languages?are a?family? or?phylum of several hundred related?languages and dialects,including most major current?languages of Europe, the?Iranian plateau, and?South Asia and also historically predominant in?Anatolia. With written attestations appearing since the Bronze Age, in the form of the?Anatolian languages?and?Mycenaean Greek, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of?historical linguistics?as possessing the longest recorded history after the?Afroasiatic?family Subdivisions: Albanian Anatolian extinct Armenian Balto-Slavic Baltic and Slavic Celtic Germanic Indo-Iranian Italic includes Romance Tocharian extinct Membership of these languages in the Indo-European language family is determined by?genetic?relationships, meaning that all members are presumed to be descendants of a common ancestor,?Proto-Indo-European.? The Dravidian language family includes about 85 genetically related languages,spoken by about 217 million people. They are mainly spoken in southern India and parts of eastern and central India as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan,Iran, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. The most widely spoken Dravidian languages are Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. Only two Dravidian languages are exclusively spoken outside India, Brahui and Dhangar, which is related to Kurukh. Subdivisions * * general introductions subgroups ancestor Indo-Iranian Italic Slavic Germanic Armenian Baltic Non-Indo-European languages Celtic Albanian Hellenic Dravidian Language Famliy Dravidian Geographic distribution: South Asia Linguistic classification Dravidian Subdivisions Northern Central Southern Proto-language Proto-Dravidian Dravidian Central Northern Southern Kolami-Naiki Kolami, Northwestern Kolami, Southeastern Parji-Gadaba Duruwa Gad