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A comprehensive list of primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in linguistics, with their current speakers, location, and proposed parent family. The list covers the major language families of Africa, Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas.
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.
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.
22 lip 2020 · Our All in the Language Family series goes into detail on how these families work. The Indo-European Language Family — One of the largest language families in the world, comprising hundreds of languages including those in the Germanic, Romance, Baltic and Slavic language families.
9 lip 2018 · Learn about the 135 language families in the world, their origins, and their number of speakers. Find out which language family is the largest and which ones are language isolates.
19 paź 2023 · A language family is a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language. The one language that generated those other languages in its family is known as a protolanguage. Some languages do not come from a protolanguage.
1 paź 2024 · Explore the distribution and number of the world's major human language families on this interactive map. See the list of languages, families, speakers and locations from Glottolog 5.0 and Ethnologue.
