page_title: List of Indo-European languages
section_title: Armenian language
hierarchical_section_title: List of Indo-European languages / Armenian language
caption_attribution_description: English: Armenian dialects according to H. Adjarian's Classification des dialectes arméniens, 1909. Boundaries as of 1878 treaty between Ottoman Empire and Russia. Map of the Armenian dialects in early 20th century: &#160;&#160; -owm dialects, corresponding to Eastern Armenian. &#160;&#160; -el dialects. &#160;&#160; -gë dialects, corresponding to Western Armenian.
context_page_description: The Indo-European languages include some 449 language families spoken by about or more than 3.5 billion people. Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups of Europe, and Western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family. Therefore, Indo-European is the biggest language family in the world by number of mother tongue speakers. Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto World Lingua Franca with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers.
  Each subfamily or linguistic branch in this list contains many subgroups and individual languages. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct. The relation of Indo-European branches, how they are related to one another and branched from the ancestral proto-language is a matter of further research and not yet well known. There are some individual Indo-European languages that are unclassified within the language family, they are not yet classified in a branch and could be members of their own branch.
caption: Armenian dialects, according to Adjarian (1909) (before 1st World War and Armenian Genocide). In many regions of the contiguous area shown in the map, Armenian speakers were the majority or a significant minority.
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