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1 Albanian Languages - 3 MALDIVIAN SINHALA Baltic Languages - 2 VEDDAH VEDDAH ENGLISH Celtic Languages - 4 Germanic Languages - 30 MALDIVIAN Greek Language - 1 MALDIVIAN IndoIranian Languages - 39 IndoAryan Languages -168 Italic Languages - 33 Slavic Languages -17 The IndoEuropean Language Family MALDIVIAN 0 87.5 175 350 525 700 Miles Language classification and cartography by Dr. Stephen Huffman, www.gmi.org/wlms/users/huffman.
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