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Identify 3 regions/countries of Europe in which Indo-European languages do NOT predominate

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3 regions/countries of Europe in which Indo-European languages do NOT predominate are :

Uralic languages are spoken in:

Estonia: Estonian

Finland: Finnish and Swedish

Hungary: Hungarian

Explanation :

  • The Uralic or Uralian language family consists of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia
  • Uralic is a large and diverse family of languages spoken in northern and eastern Europe and northwestern Siberia. Among the better-known Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.
  • The most demographically important Uralic language is Hungarian, the official language of Hungary.
  • Two other Uralic languages, Estonian and Finnish are also spoken by millions.
  • Indo-European divided into different branches because of isolation of different speakers. Basque is the only non-Indo-European language currently spoken in Europe.
  • Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian belong to the Uralicfamily, and Basque has no genetic relation to any other language.
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