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  1. Indo-European language family
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    The Indo-European language family is the largest in the world. It consists of 437 daughter languages and has an estimated 2.91 billion speakers across Europe and Asia.
    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.
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    What are the two largest language families in the world?
    What are the two largest language families in the world? Indo-European and. Sino-Tibetan... Show more. Earth Science Science Geography.
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    Which is world language has the largest alphabet?
    Longest alphabet. The language with the most letters is Khmer (Cambodian), with 74 (including some without any current use). All records listed on our website are current and up-to-date. For a full list of record titles, please use our Record Application Search. (You will need to register / login for access)
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    How many language families are there?
    Today there are around 6000 to 7000 extant languages in the world. From these languages scientists have identified 142 language families. The main language families as spoken by percent of world population are: Not all languages are classified into families; some are isolates (having no common characteristics with other languages).
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    Which language is the oldest language of the world?

    10 Oldest Spoken Languages in the World (Updated 2021)

    1. Egyptian (Coptic)
    2. Greek
    3. Sanskrit
    4. Chinese
    5. Aramaic
    6. Hebrew
    7. Latin
    8. Persian (Fasi)
    9. Tamil
    10. Arabic
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  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_families

    Web245 rows · Family name Languages Current speakers Location Proposed parent family Afroasiatic ...

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      FAMILY NAMELANGUAGESCURRENT SPEAKERS [6]LOCATION
      Atlantic–Congo languages1,453500,000,000Africa
      Mande languages5027,003,000Africa
      Kru languages383,800,000Africa
      Dogon languages19630,820Africa
      Ijoid languages103,221,650Africa
      Songhay languages113,228,000Africa
      Saharan languages1010,940,500Africa
      Fur languages2786,900Africa
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    • https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/language...
      Published: Jul 9, 2018
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      Web10 rows · The Indo-European language family is the largest in the world. It consists of 437 daughter ...

      • RANK LANGUAGE FAMILY ESTIMATED SPEAKERS PLACE OF ORIGIN
        1 Indo-European 2,910,000,000 Asia, Europe
        2 Sino-Tibetan 1,268,000,000 Asia
        3 Niger-Congo 437,000,000 Africa
        4 Austronesian 386,000,000 Asia, Oceania
        See all 10 rows on www.worldatlas.com
    • https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/largest-families

      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 …

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      • https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/family-language

        WebMay 20, 2022 · It is the world’s second largest language family, with more than one billion speakers of its hundreds of different languages. It …

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        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family

          A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a phylogenetic …

          • Published: Jul 06, 2022
          • https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoke

            WebFeb 15, 2020 · Indo-European languages have the widest spread worldwide. According to Ethnologue, the language family contains over 3 billion speakers in total. Interestingly, there are actually 1,526 Niger …

          • https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-largest-language-families

            WebThe 2 largest language families by number of languages is the Niger-Congo family (about 1,538 distinct languages) found in a large section of Africa and the Austronesian language family (about 1257 distinct …

          • https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/language-families

            WebJul 22, 2020 · The Afro-Asiatic Language Family — This family — the fourth largest in the world — includes languages spoken in North and East Africa, as well as the Arabian Peninsula, and it has six distinct branches: …

          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

            Web46 rows · Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English: Indo-European: Germanic: 372.9 million …

          • Top 10 World Language Families by Number of Languages

            https://www.vistawide.com/languages/language_families_statistics2.htm

            WebLanguage families by languages While the Niger-Congo and Austronesian families together account for fewer than 12% of the world's speakers, they represent more languages by …



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