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Noun
S: (n) Aryan, Indo-European (a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European)
S: (n) Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
S: (n) Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croatian (the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) Sorbian, Lusatian (a Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany)
S: (n) Baltic, Baltic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European)
S: (n) Old Prussian (a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)
S: (n) Lithuanian (the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)
S: (n) Latvian, Lettish (the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)
S: (n) Germanic, Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)
S: (n) English, English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; a language spoken in Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)
S: (n) Received Pronunciation (the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting)
S: (n) Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
S: (n) Gothic (extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas)
S: (n) Celtic, Celtic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era)
S: (n) Gaelic, Goidelic, Erse (any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland)
S: (n) Italic, Italic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative)
S: (n) Osco-Umbrian (a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin)
S: (n) Umbrian (an extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy)
S: (n) Oscan (an extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy)
S: (n) Sabellian (an extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions)
S: (n) Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)
S: (n) Old Latin (the oldest recorded Latin (dating back at early as the 6th century B.C.))
S: (n) classical Latin (the language of educated people in ancient Rome) "Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me"
S: (n) Low Latin (any dialect of Latin other than classical Latin)
S: (n) Vulgar Latin (nonclassical Latin dialects spoken in the Roman Empire; source of Romance languages)
S: (n) Sanskrit, Sanskritic language ((Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes)
S: (n) Urdu (the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script)
S: (n) Hindi (the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script)
S: (n) Nepali (the official state language of Nepal)
S: (n) Prakrit (any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD)
S: (n) Pali (an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism)
S: (n) Ossete (a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia)
S: (n) Scythian (the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians)
S: (n) Anatolian, Anatolian language (an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European)
S: (n) Hittite (the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions)