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The Alps mountain range is occupied by languages of three Indo-European groups:
In the [[League of Lost Languages]], the Alps, similar to the Caucasus, are home to several (fictional) non-Indo-European languages in addition to the Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages spoken there in the real world.  (The idea behind this is that the Alps, being similar in size and landscape to the Caucasus, could harbour a similar wealth of languages.)  These languages are grouped together als '''Palaeo-Alpine languages'''.  Like the Caucasian languages, they do not form a single family.


* West Germanic
==Language groups==
:* Alemannic
:* Bavarian
* Romance
:* French
:* Occitan
:* Italian
:* Rhaeto-Romance
::* Grisons
::* Dolomites Ladin
::* Friulian
* South Slavic
:* Slovenian
 
Extinct languages of the Alps include the Celtic languages Gaulish and Lepontic and the non-Indo-European language Rhaetian, which is probably related to Etruscan.
 
In the [[League of Lost Languages]], the Alps, similar to the Caucasus, are home to several ('''fictional''') non-Indo-European languages in addition to the languages listed above.  (The idea behind this is that the Alps, being similar in size and landscape to the Caucasus, could harbour a similar wealth of languages.)  These languages are grouped together als  '''Alpine languages''' or '''Palaeo-Alpine languages'''.  Like the Caucasian languages, they do not form a single family.
 
==Palaeo-Alpine languages in the LLL==


* [[Alpic]]
* [[Alpic]]

Revision as of 11:31, 30 January 2012

In the League of Lost Languages, the Alps, similar to the Caucasus, are home to several (fictional) non-Indo-European languages in addition to the Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages spoken there in the real world. (The idea behind this is that the Alps, being similar in size and landscape to the Caucasus, could harbour a similar wealth of languages.) These languages are grouped together als Palaeo-Alpine languages. Like the Caucasian languages, they do not form a single family.

Language groups