The societies included in the first stage of the EDP speak languages for which comparative linguistic data are available in the comparative Indo-European database[1], or variants thereof, such as local dialects.
The map on the front page shows the location of the languages calculated as the midpoint of their geographic distribution [2]. Below you can browse the languages by name, by country, and by language phylum. Please contact us if you would like to contribute data for a society speaking another Indo-European language, or if the society is located in a country different from the one indicated below.
1.^Dyen, I., Kruskal, J. B. & Black, P. (1992) An Indoeuropean classification: a lexicostatistical experiment. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 82(5), 1-132.
2.^Language data derived from WLMS 2005, www.gmi.org/wlms; map courtesy of Tom Currie.
3.^Gordon, R. G. Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th edition). Dallas, TX: SIL International, http://www.ethnologue.com/.