Most of the languages of Europe are related to each other, having evolved from a common Indo-European parent tongue over the past five thousand years. During that time they split into several groups and this website illustrates some of their similarities.

A few European languages belong to other families. Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, for example, are related to each other, though any relationship with the Indo-European languages is extremely distant. Maltese is a dialect of Arabic and Turkish is very similar to several languages of central Asia. Basque, on the other hand, stands alone, being one of the oldest surviving languages of Europe. It has no certain connections to any other language in the world.

On these pages I am assembling a numbered collection of words in over a hundred European languages. The meanings corresponding to each number are the same for all the languages. They can be used to highlight differences and similarities between different languages (or the same language at different stages in its history) in the three columns.

Languages on this site include Albanian Armenian Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Catalan Cornish Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Faroese Finnish French Frisian Friulan Gaelic Galician German Gothic Greek Gujarati Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indo-European Irish Italian Ladin Lapp Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luxemburgish Macedonian Maltese Manx Norse Norwegian Occitan Pali Panjabi Plattdeutsch Polish Portuguese Prussian Romanian Romansch Romany Russian Sanskrit Sardinian Scots Serbian Sicilian Slavonic Slovak Slovene Sorbian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Vegliot Walloon Welsh Yiddish

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