Most
languages of
Europe belong to the
Indo-European language family. This family is divided into a number of branches, including
Romance,
Germanic,
Baltic,
Slavic,
Albanian,
Celtic,
Armenian,
Iranian, and
Hellenic (
Greek). The
Uralic languages, which include
Hungarian,
Finnish, and
Estonian, also have a significant presence in Europe. The
Turkic and
Mongolic families also have several European members, while the
North Caucasian and
Kartvelian families are important in the southeastern extremity of geographical Europe. The
Basque language of the western
Pyrenees is an
isolate unrelated to any other group, while
Maltese, which is descended from
Sicilian Arabic, is the only
Semitic language in Europe with national language status.