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Most languages spoken in Europe today come from three Indo-European languages spoken around the roman period that replaced many older languages, some of which are all but unknown.
The Mediterranean was a linguistically diverse place in classical antiquity, and while we lack first-hand accounts of northern Europe, the relative shallowness of linguistic time-depth in northern Europe points to a similar situation up north, with numerous ancient peoples and tongues lost to time.