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English: A map showing the approximate present-day distribution of the Indo-European branches within their homelands of Europe and Asia. The following legend is given in the chronological order of the earliest surviving written attestations of each branch:
 
Albanian [1]
 
Armenian [2]
 
Balto-Slavic (Baltic) [3]
 
Balto-Slavic (Slavic)
 
Celtic [4]
 
Germanic [5]
[6]
 
Hellenic (Greek) [7]
 
Indo-Iranian [8]
 
Italic (includes Romance) [9]
 
Non-Indo-European languages
Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common (more visible upon full enlargement of the map).
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For the names of the branches, see citations in legend (based on "Indo-European Languages". The College of Liberal Arts. UT Austin. 2008.) and "Indo-European languages" from Britannica.com.

The distribution is essentially and approximately based on the map "Indo-European languages – Approximate locations of Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia" from Britannica.com, although with the following minor modifications:

The two articles "Balto-Slavic languages" and "Indo-Iranian languages" from Britannica.com stress the lack of scholarly consensus on these branches. That is, for the former, whether Baltic and Slavic developed from a common ancestral language, or that the similarities are the result of parallel development and of mutual influence during a long period of contact. To cater for both scholarly viewpoints, this map shows Baltic and Slavic with two distinct shades of green under "Balto-Slavic". For the latter, the dispute is whether the Indo-Iranian languages include just the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (or, Indic) language groups, or Nūristānī and Bangani too. To prevent disagreement (and also because this map only represents the primary branches of Indo-European), all of Indo-Iranian is represented with one shade.

The article "Romance languages" from Britannica.com states that the Romance languages form "a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family".

It should be noted that this map is only approximative and simplified, and glosses over some multilingual areas (particularly in eastern Russia, which is difficult to represent accurately). For some areas, more regional maps have been used as sources for greater accuracy, namely "Languages of Switzerland" from Ethnologue.com, "Russia ethnic plurality" from Freelang.net, "Major ethnic groups in Central Asia" from Globalsecurity.org, and "South Asian Language Families" from "Language families and branches, languages and dialects in A Historical Atlas of South Asia". Oxford University Press. New York 1992.
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15:37, 30 March 2022Thumbnail for version as of 15:37, 30 March 20222,048 × 2,048 (980 KB)Whoop whoop pull up (talk | contribs)Misc fixes (Russian minority in Svalbard & Israel, Slovenian in SE Carinthia, Greek in N Epirus, Aromanians/Megleno-Romanians, Swedish essentially extinct in Estonia, etc.
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19:55, 23 August 2021Thumbnail for version as of 19:55, 23 August 20212,934 × 2,938 (1.74 MB)Ahmet Q. (talk | contribs)Rv false edit summary. Overrepresentation of Greeks in Turkey, Albania and Ukraine. Unexplained removal of Romanian in Serbia. Overall deterioration of the original file. Seek consensus for your changes.
16:16, 7 August 2021Thumbnail for version as of 16:16, 7 August 20212,934 × 2,938 (2.16 MB)Demetrios1993 (talk | contribs)Addition of Arbereshe linguistic minority in Sicily. Addition of Serbian, Bosnian, and Gorani linguistic minorities in Kosovo. Addition of Greek linguistic minorities in Italy, Albania, Turkey, and Ukraine. Including some other minor corrections.
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18:42, 31 March 2018Thumbnail for version as of 18:42, 31 March 20181,479 × 1,479 (574 KB)Maphobbyist (talk | contribs)Removed area that exactly corresponds to the non-Indo European Lezgi linguistic area.
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