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May 25 2022Family name Languages Current speakers 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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See all 245 rows on en.wikipedia.orgFAMILY NAME LANGUAGES CURRENT SPEAKERS LOCATION 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 Mande languages 50 27,003,000 Africa
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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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Glottolog 4.0 (2019) lists the following as the largest families, of 8494 languages: Atlantic–Congo (1,432 languages) Austronesian (1,275 languages) Indo-European (588 languages) Sino-Tibetan (494 languages) Afro-Asiatic (373 languages) Nuclear Trans–New Guinea (314 languages) …
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_families
Pages in category "Language families" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ().(previous page) ()
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
A language is a structured system of communication.The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary.Languages are the primary means of …
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_family
May 11, 2021 · List of Wikipedias by language family. From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Article share of the largest language …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa
The Niger–Congo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa and perhaps the world in terms of the number of languages. One of its salient features is an …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages …
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You can help Wikipedia by finding good sources, and adding them. (February 2021) The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo …
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