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A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in evolutionary taxonomy.
This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article "List of proposed language families".
15 paź 2023 · Learn about the 14 major language families, their origins and evolution, and the ancestry of historical and modern languages from around the world.
Catalogue of languages and families. Glottolog provides a comprehensive catalogue of the world's languages, language families and dialects. It assigns a unique and stable identifier (the Glottocode) to (in principle) all languoids, i.e. all families, languages, and dialects.
Explore the historical relationships between languages and how they descend from a common ancestral proto-language. See the magnificent tree created by Minna Sundberg, a webcomic artist, that captures the connections between groups of languages and their speakers.
22 lip 2020 · What Are Language Families? A language family, like any other family, is best thought of as a tree. The idea is that there is one single language — the trunk — that all the members of the language family grew out of. The concept of branches is also useful because usually these new languages form by splitting off from each other.
• a selection of languages and language families • hypothetical tree from phylolinguistic analyses (chiefly following Rama 2016 and Garrett 2018, adapted) • branch lengths deliberate, not...
