WebEthnologue 18 lists the following language families as containing at least 1% of the 7,472 known languages in the world: Niger–Congo (1,538 languages) (20.6%) Austronesian (1,257 languages) (16.8%) Trans–New Guinea (480 languages) (6.4%) Sino-Tibetan (457 languages) (6.1%) Indo-European (444 languages) (5.9%) Australian (378 languages) …

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Web1 Language families 2 Language isolates 2.1 Akulanen 2.2 Atsiq 2.3 Baredina 2.4 Boroso 2.5 Miraria 2.6 Nagu 3 Unclassified languages 3.1 Miraria 4 Extinct families and unclassified languages 5 Creoles and mixed languages 5.1 Termic creoles 6 Sign languages Language families See also: List of languages by total amount of speakers

WebLanguage Families In the following, each numbered item is a known or suspected language family. The geographic headings over them are meant solely as a tool for grouping families into collections more comprehensible than an unstructured list of a few hundred independent families.

WebBrowse the world’s various language families below. Language Family Listing Afro-Asiatic Language Family » Berber Branch » Chadic Branch » Cushitic Branch » Semitic Branch Algonquian (Algic) Language Family Altaic Language Family » Mongolian Languages » Tungusic Languages » Turkic Branch Austro-Asiatic Language Family Austronesian …

WebMar 30, 2022 · Niger-Congo includes 1,536 languages, the most languages of any language family. Because of this, Sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of these languages are spoken, is one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the world. Out of these languages, Igbo, Yoruba, Zulu, and Swahili are the most well-recognized.

WebSep 27, 2022 · Families of languages are groups of languages that are related through descent from a common ancestor. There are many language family branches, and each one has its own unique features. Some well-known families include the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, and Austronesian ones. English is part of which language branch?

WebThe following is a list of language families. 14 relations. 13 relations: Bourbonnais dialects, Cru (Christian organization), Ethnologue, Language family, Language isolate, Languages of the United States, Linguistic Bibliography, List of contemporary ethnic groups, Lists of languages, Mundolingua, Papi languages, Proto-Human language, Unclassified …

WebThe following is a list of language families. 452 relations.

WebSep 20, 2022 · In the following, each bullet item is a known or suspected language family. Phyla with historically wide geographical distributions but comparatively few current-day speakers incl

WebSome of the other widely spoken families include Sino-Tibetan (like Burmese and all the varieties of Chinese), Niger-Congo (like Swahili and most of the languages in sub-Saharan Africa), and Afroasiatic (like Arabic and Hebrew). See below for a more complete list of language families for languages spoken today.

WebJul 15, 2000 · There are about 20 languages with 20 million speakers in this family. Best known are Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Saami, the language of the Lapplanders. The Altaic Family (with the isolates Ket and Gilyak) There are about 60 langauges in the Altaic family, with about 250 million speakers. Included are Turkish and Mongolian.

WebThe six largest language families by language count are Niger-Congo, Austronesian, Trans-New Guinea, Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European, and Afro-Asiatic. Of the 142 different language families, these six stand out as the major language families of the world. They can be found throughout the world, spreading uniquely to different regions and countries.