non-Indo-European

• a word derived from Indo-European.
  Indo-European

  noun

  a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. IE

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non-Indo-European

The loss of millions of Hungarians to the newly created states was felt as a threat to the survival of the Hungarian language — the only non-Indo-European language in Central Europe.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022

Rhys, relying on the strange character of the Scottish Ogam inscriptions, pronounces it to be non-Celtic and non-Indo-European.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

"The languages of the indigenous peoples throughout Asia Minor and the Aegean area are commonly believed to have been non-Indo-European."

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

More Suggestions

• Indo-European
• anti-European
• Pan-European
• pro-European