The Germanic, Romance, Celtic, and Slavic languages are all branches of the Indo-European language family. Germanic languages are spoken in Northern Europe, Romance languages in Southern Europe, Celtic languages in Western Europe, and Slavic languages in Eastern Europe.
There are three other major languages families in Europe besides the Slavic family--Germanic, Romance, and Finno-Ugric--so some non-Slavic languages would be Portuguese, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Magyar (Hungarian), Finnish, and other languages like Greek and Turkish.
Most of the languages in the very northern reaches of Europe belong to the Germanic, Slavic, and Balto-Slavic language families (although Finnish and Estonian are Uralic languages). Swedish, Norwegian, English, and Icelandic are Germanic languages, Russian is a Slavic language, and Latvian and Lithuanian are Balto-Slavic languages.
No. Slavic languages are spoken in Eastern and Southern Europe. Russia is considered the mother of Slavic languages, and could be considered as part of Northern Europe, in which case this would make Slavic languages the most common in Northern Europe. However, Russia is included in Eastern Europe, and therefore, Slavic languages are not even present in Northern Europe (natively). If speaking by splitting Europe into just northern and southern regions, then Russia would be in Northern Europe, and Slavic languages would be the predominate language family in the area. Northern European countries' languages typically are not present outside their own borders. For example, Danish is only common in Denmark, Norwegian in Norway, Swedish in Sweden (and is official in Finland, although spoken by a minority), Finnish in Finland, and Icelandic in Iceland. And if Northern Europeans do learn a second language, it typically isn't one of their neighboring countries. The most common second languages in Northern Europe are English and German. Russian influence does not flow into the Nordic countries, except possibly in Finland, where Russians most recently held control.
Baltic-Slavic languages are spoken in Eastern Europe, mainly in countries such as Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. These languages belong to the Indo-European language family and are closely related to each other.
There are 286 languages spoken in Europe and Russia, but they don't all belong to 3 language families.The three largest language families in Europe are (accounting for about 30 languages):SlavicItalicGermanic
Slavic people speak Slavic languages. Some of the most common are:RussianPolishCzechSlovakBulgarianUkrainianBelarussianRusynSlovenianBosnianCroatianMontenegrinMacedonianChurch SlavonicFurthermore, some Slavic people speak non-Slavic languages as well, particularly:EnglishGermanRomanianHungarianFrench
Slavic languages can be subdivided into three groups: Eastern, Southern, and Western Slavic languages. Due to geopolitical, cultural, religious and economic reasons, language contacts over time were more frequent between Eastern and Southern Slavic peoples, on the one hand, and between Southern and Western Slavic peoples on the other. Therefore, there is less similarity, linguistically speaking, between Eastern and Western Slavic languages than could be expected based on geographical proximity. Eastern: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian Southern: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian Western: Slovak, Czech, Polish Note: There are also some smaller, nonofficial languages that belong to the Slavic group, for instance Sorbian and Kashubian.
Polish, Russian and Czech are all examples of the Slavic language group, which is a subgroup of Indo-European languages. The Slavic languages are the most widely spoken language subgroups in Europe, with 315 million people speaking some form of it.
The Polish language family tree looks like this: * Indo-European languages * Balto-Slavic languages * Slavic languages * West Slavic languages * Lechitic languages * Polish language
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The population of Slavic Europe is 278,825,656.