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What percentage of Esperanto words come each major language family?

My understanding is that Esperanto's vocabulary relies primarily on Indo-European languages. Here are a few of the major families within that group:

  • Italic
  • Germanic
  • Balto-Salvic
  • Hellenic

At a high level, do we have estimates of the percentage of Esperanto vocabulary that comes from each of these families? What percentage comes from non-IE languages?

Ideally I'd like to know about modern Esperanto's vocabulary, not just what Zamenhof used.