Europe/Addendum

The states of Europe
Note that Europe includes the following, de facto, independent territories, with no or very little international recognition: Abkhazia (edge of Europe), Nagorno-Karabakh (edge of Europe), Northern Cyprus (edge of Europe), South Ossetia (edge of Europe) and Transnistria.

The languages of Europe
The following list presents the current, autochtonous languages of Europe, classified by language families. Various, recently claimed languages that are not widely—or not yet—recognised by the linguist community are not enlisted here. Each table matches with a lower range language family. Languages are presented in a geographic order, mainly from west to east and from north to south.

Indo-Iranian languages

 * Iranian languages


 * Indo-Aryan languages

North Caucasian languages
The unity of the North Caucasian family is debated among specialists.