In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an [ ìndō yoorə p ən ](pluralIn·do-Eu·ro·pe·ans)
noun
Definition:
1. family of European and Asian languages: a large family of languages spoken from South Asia to Western Europe and the United States, comprising the Balto-Slavonic, Germanic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Celtic, Greek, Albanian, Armenian, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches. This language family includes many modern languages such as Bangla, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, and Urdu.
2. ancestor of modern Indo-European languages: the reconstructed language that is the prehistoric ancestor of modern languages belonging to Indo-European
3. speaker of Indo-European language: a speaker of a language belonging to Indo-European, especially prehistoric Indo-European
