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In the Middle Ages, the two most important defining elements of Europe were Christians and Latinitas
Currently, the most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total population of 740 million, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language; within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Slavic, Germanic, and Romance, with more than 200 million speakers each, between them accounting for close to 90% of Europeans.
Smaller phyla of Indo-European found in Europe include Hellenic (Greek – 10 million), Baltic – 7 million, Albanian – 5 million, Indo-Aryan (Romani – 1.5 million) and Celtic ( – 1 million).
