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Palaeo-Alpine languages

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The Alps mountain range is occupied by languages of three Indo-European groups:

  • West Germanic
  • 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