Here's why:
* Europe: Indo-European languages are dominant across Europe, including Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic languages.
* Asia: Indo-European languages are prevalent in South Asia (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali), Central Asia (Persian, Pashto), and parts of Western Asia (Armenian, Kurdish).
* Africa: Indo-European languages are spoken in Southern Africa (Afrikaans) and parts of North Africa (Arabic, Berber).
* North America: English, a Germanic Indo-European language, is the dominant language in the United States and Canada.
* South America: Spanish and Portuguese, Romance Indo-European languages, are widely spoken in South America.
* Australia: English, a Germanic Indo-European language, is the official language of Australia.
While other language families are spoken on multiple continents, Indo-European is the only one with such widespread geographical distribution.