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Nov 9 2022Family name Languages Current speakers [6] Location Proposed parent family Afroasiatic languages 366 499,294,669 Africa, Eurasia Niger–Congo languages (proposed) 1,524 519,814,033 Africa Atlantic–Congo languages 1,453 500,000,000 Africa Niger–Congo (disputed) Mande languages 50 27,003,000 Africa Niger–Congo (disputed) 
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245 rows · By number of languages [ edit] Ethnologue 24 (2021) lists the following families that contain at least 1% of the 7,139 known languages in the world: Niger–Congo (1,542 languages) …
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See all 52 rows on en.wikipedia.orgFAMILY NAME LANGUAGES CURRENT SPEAKERS [6] LOCATION Atlantic–Congo languages 1,453 500,000,000 Africa Mande languages 50 27,003,000 Africa Kru languages 38 3,800,000 Africa Dogon languages 19 630,820 Africa Ijoid languages 10 3,221,650 Africa Songhay languages 11 3,228,000 Africa Saharan languages 10 10,940,500 Africa Fur languages 2 786,900 Africa Explore further
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Largest Language Families By Number of Speakers. 1. Indo-European - 2.910 Billion. The Indo-European language family is the largest in the world. It consists of 437 daughter languages …
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/...Jan 23, 2015 · The left side of the tree maps out the Indo-Iranian languages. It shows the connections between Hindi and Urdu as well as some regional …
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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 …
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- The best way to learn about language families is looking at the individual families that are out there. Each of them has their own engaging history, and each of them challenges our idea of what “language” and “family” is in their own way. Our All in the Language Family series goes into detail on how these families work. 1. The Indo-European Languag...
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Language: Approx. number of speakers: Main geographic area: Malay: 20 million: Malaisia: Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) 200 million: Indonesia: Tagalog (Filipino) 72 million: …
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Oct 26, 2014 · By finding patterns like these, different languages can be grouped together as members of a language family. There are three main language families: Indo-European (Includes English) Sino-Tibetan (Includes Chinese) …
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Sep 29, 2010 · Family Language Inde-pendent [Korean-Japanese] Korean, Japanese, and Ainu are often grouped together as a branch of the Altaic language family. This grouping, however, …
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The 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 …
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Sep 12, 2021 · Today’s infographic from Alberto Lucas Lopez condenses the 7,102 known living languages today into a stunning visualization, with individual colors representing each world …
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