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| x Indo-European languages |
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Germanic languages | Chhattisgarhi Language |
The Indo-European languages are a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia and also historically predominant in Anatolia. With written...
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| Indo-Iranian languages | Nepali Language | ||||
| Italic languages | Bhili Language | ||||
| Balto-Slavic languages | Romani, Vlax Language | ||||
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| x Gallo-Italic languages |
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The Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian language group is a genetic subgroup of the Romance languages. Its place within Romance, however, is in dispute: whether it belongs in Gallo-Romance languages or the Italo-Dalmatian languages. The Venetian language...
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| x Italic languages |
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Romance languages | Latin Language |
The Italic subfamily is a member of the Indo-European language family. It includes the Romance languages derived from Latin (Catalan, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Occitan, etc.), and a number of extinct languages of the Italian...
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| x Romance languages |
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Langues d'oïl | Occitan language |
The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages) are all the related languages derived from Vulgar Latin and forming a subgroup of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language...
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| Galician Language | |||||
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| Franco-Provençal Language | |||||
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| x Indo-Iranian languages |
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Iranian languages | Persian Language |
The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It consists of three language groups: the Indo-Aryan, Iranian and Nuristani. The Indo-Iranian languages occasionally go by the term ...
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| x Celtic languages | Breton |
The Celtic or Keltic languages (usually pronounced /ˈkɛltɪk/ but sometimes /ˈsɛltɪk/) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this...
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| x Germanic languages |
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North Germanic languages | Faroese |
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic (also known as Common Germanic), which was spoken in approximately the mid...
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| East Germanic languages | Danish Language | ||||
| West Germanic languages | Yiddish Language | ||||
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| x Baltic languages |
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The Baltic languages are a subbranch of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Baltic languages are spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The group is usually divided into...
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| x Slavic languages |
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Eastern Europe | East Slavic languages |
The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe,...
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| x Austronesian languages |
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Formosan languages | Amis Language |
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European,...
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| Malayo-Polynesian languages | Buhid Language | ||||
| Polynesian languages | Kambera Language | ||||
| Makian, East Language | |||||
| Ghari Language | |||||
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| x Niger-Congo languages |
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Niger State | Mande | Shona Language |
The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. They may constitute the world's largest language family in...
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| Ijoid languages | Myene Language | ||||
| Chewa language | |||||
| Tumbuka Language | |||||
| Yoruba Language | |||||
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| x Sino-Tibetan languages |
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Chinese language | Bodo Language |
The Sino-Tibetan languages are a family of some 250 languages of East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia, including the Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages. They are second only to the Indo-European languages in terms of the number of...
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| Chinese, Hakka Language | |||||
| Lisu Language | |||||
| Naga, Lotha Language | |||||
| Kok Borok Language | |||||
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| x West Papuan languages | Tobelo Language |
The West Papuan languages are a hypothetical language family of about two dozen Papuan languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai Peninsula) of far western New Guinea and the island of Halmahera, spoken by about 220 000 people in...
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| Karon Dori Language | |||||
| Laba Language | |||||
| Ternate Language | |||||
| Tugutil Language | |||||
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| x Trans–New Guinea languages | Paniai Lakes languages | Sop Language |
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken in New Guinea and neighboring islands, perhaps the third largest language family in the world. (See List of language families#By variety.) The core of the family is considered...
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| Alor-Pantar languages | Meriam Language | ||||
| Ok languages | Golin Language | ||||
| Mombum languages | Aghu Language | ||||
| Central and South New Guinea languages | Wambon Language | ||||
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| x Afro-Asiatic languages |
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Omotic languages | Tashelhiyt Language |
Afroasiatic (alternatively Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is one of the largest language families of the world, and includes about 375 living languages. Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa,...
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| Semitic languages | Bedawi Language | ||||
| Berber languages | Tera Language | ||||
| Harari Language | |||||
| Geez Language | |||||
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| x Uto-Aztecan languages |
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Numic languages | Cupeño Language |
Uto-Aztecan or Uto-Aztekan /ˈjuːtoʊ.æzˈtɛkən/ is a Native American language family consisting of over 30 languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The Pipil language, an offshoot of Nahuatl,...
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| Tarahumara language | Shoshoni Language | ||||
| Paiute, Northern Language | |||||
| Mono Language | |||||
| Mayo Language | |||||
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| x Mixe-Zoque languages |
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Zoque, Copainalá Language |
The Mixe–Zoque languages constitute a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. The Mexican government recognizes three distinct Mixe–Zoquean languages as official: Mixe or ayook with 188,000...
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| Mixe, Isthmus Language | |||||
| Popoluca, Texistepec Language | |||||
| Zoque, Francisco León Language | |||||
| Zoque, Rayón Language | |||||
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| x Austro-Asiatic languages |
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South Asia | Santali Language |
The Austro-Asiatic (Austroasiatic) languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh. The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for ...
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| Southeast Asia | Sora Language | ||||
| Mon Language | |||||
| Semai Language | |||||
| Vietnamese Language | |||||
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| x Nilo-Saharan languages |
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Central Africa | Eastern Sudanic languages | Dinka, Southwestern Language |
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers (hence the term "Nilo-"), including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of...
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| East Africa | Tedaga Language | ||||
| Assangori Language | |||||
| Bari Language | |||||
| Berta Language | |||||
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| x Sign language |
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French Sign Language |
A sign language (also signed language) is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning. This can involve simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and...
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| Providencia Sign Language | |||||
| Russian Sign Language | |||||
| Adamorobe Sign Language | |||||
| Taiwan Sign Language | |||||
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| x Zaparoan languages |
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Cahuarano Language |
Zaparoan (also Sáparoan, Záparo, Zaparoano, Zaparoana) is an endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador with fewer than 100 speakers. Zaparoan speakers seem to have been very numerous before the arrival of the Europeans but their groups have...
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| Arabela Language | |||||
| Iquito Language | |||||
| Záparo Language | |||||
| Andoa Language | |||||
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| x Tai-Kadai languages |
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Hainan | Shan Language |
The Tai–Kadai languages, also known as Daic, Kadai, Kradai, or Kra–Dai, are a language family of highly tonal languages found in southern China and Southeast Asia. They include Thai and Lao, the national languages of Thailand and Laos respectively....
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| Northern and southern China | Tai Nüa Language | ||||
| Southeast Asia | Lao Language | ||||
| Thai Language | |||||
| Phuan Language | |||||
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| x Oto-Manguean languages |
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Mexico | Zapotec, Isthmus Language |
Oto-Manguean languages (also Otomanguean) are a large family comprising several families of Native American languages. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean branch of the family, which is...
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| Mixtec, Western Juxtlahuaca Language | |||||
| Chiapanec Language | |||||
| Cuicatec, Teutila Language | |||||
| Chinantec, Lealao Language | |||||
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| x East Papuan languages | Naasioi Language |
The East Papuan languages is a defunct proposal for a family of Papuan languages spoken on the islands to the east of New Guinea, including New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, and the Santa Cruz Islands. There is no evidence...
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| Kazukuru Language | |||||
| Lavukaleve Language | |||||
| Pele-Ata Language | |||||
| Anem Language | |||||
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| x Na-Dené languages |
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Gwich'in Language |
Na-Dene ( /ˌnɑːdɨˈneɪ/; also Nadene, Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a Native American language family which includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. An inclusion of Haida is controversial.
In...
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| Tanaina Language | |||||
| Apache, Western Language | |||||
| Tlingit Language | |||||
| Tanana, Lower Language | |||||
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| x Sepik-Ramu languages | Kwanga language |
The Sepik–Ramu languages are a hypothetical language family linking the Sepik, Ramu, Nor–Pondo (Lower Sepik), Leonhard Schultze (Walio–Papi), and Yuat families, together with the Taiap language isolate, and proposed by Donald Laycock in 1973.
Sepik...
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| Taiap Language | |||||
| Ak Language | |||||
| Kaian Language | |||||
| Romkun Language | |||||
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| x Tupian languages |
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Argentina | Monde languages | Chiripá Language |
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
When the Portuguese arrived in Brazil, they found that wherever they went along the vast coast of this newly...
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| Brazil | Tupi-Guarani languages | Tapieté Language | |||
| Bolivia | Ramarama languages | Cocama-Cocamilla Language | |||
| Paraguay | Kaiwá Language | ||||
| Uruguay | Guaraní, Mbyá Language | ||||
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| x Dravidian languages |
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Indian subcontinent | Kurux Language |
The Dravidian language family includes approximately 85 genetically related languages, spoken by about 217 million people. They are mainly spoken in southern India and parts of eastern and central India as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan...
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| Badaga Language | |||||
| Tulu Language | |||||
| Malayalam Language | |||||
| Maria Language | |||||
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| x Penutian languages |
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Nez Perce Language |
Penutian is a proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California. The existence of a Penutian stock or phylum has been...
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| Gitxsan Language | |||||
| Maidu, Northwest Language | |||||
| Maidu, Northeast Language | |||||
| Tsimshian Language | |||||
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| x Tucanoan languages |
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Tetete Language |
Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
There are two dozen Tucanoan languages:
?Yauna (AKA Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna) (†)
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
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| Tucano Language | |||||
| Yurutí Language | |||||
| Siona Language | |||||
| Tama Language | |||||
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| x Creole language |
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Jamaican Creole English Language |
A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins (which are believed by scholars to be necessary precedents of creoles) in that they have been nativized by...
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| Sãotomense Language | |||||
| Chavacano Language | |||||
| Tsotsitaal Language | |||||
| Papiamento language | |||||
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| x Quechuan languages | Quechua, South Bolivian Language |
The neologism 'Quechuan' is synonymous with Quechua, the name of the most widely spoken Native American language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably some 6 to 8 million speakers (estimates vary widely). Quechua...
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| Quechua, Chilean Language | |||||
| Quichua, Santiago del Estero Language | |||||
| Quechua, Sihuas Ancash Language | |||||
| Quechua, Napo Lowland Language | |||||
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| x Panoan languages |
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Amahuaca Language |
Panoan (also Pánoan, Panoano, Panoana, Páno) is a family of languages spoken in Peru, western Brazil, and Bolivia. It is a branch of the larger Pano–Tacanan family.
Panoan consists of some two dozen languages:
Kulino, Nocamán, Pánobo, Huariapano,...
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| Cashibo-Cacataibo Language | |||||
| Cashinahua Language | |||||
| Capanahua Language | |||||
| Remo Language | |||||
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| x Pidgin | Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin Language |
A pidgin ( /ˈpɪdʒɪn/), or pidgin language, is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade, or where both...
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| Barikanchi Language | |||||
| Lingua Franca Language | |||||
| Liberian English Language | |||||
| Iha Based Pidgin Language | |||||
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| x Arawakan languages |
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Garifuna Language |
Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean based on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes the proposal is called Arawakan, in which case the central family is called Maipurean.
Originally the name "Arawak" was used...
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| Saraveca Language | |||||
| Terêna Language | |||||
| Ashéninka Pajonal Language | |||||
| Ajyíninka Apurucayali Language | |||||
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| x East Geelvink Bay languages | Tunggare Language |
The East Geelvink Bay or East Cenderawasih languages are a language family of a dozen Papuan languages along the eastern coast of Geelvink Bay in Indonesian Papua, which is also known as Sarera Bay or Cenderawasih.
The East Geelvink Bay languages...
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| Woria Language | |||||
| Fayu Language | |||||
| Kaiy Language | |||||
| Awera Language | |||||
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| x North Caucasian languages | Dargwa Language |
North Caucasian languages (sometimes called simply Caucasic as opposed to Kartvelian, and to avoid confusion with the concept of "Caucasian race") is a blanket term for two language phyla spoken chiefly in the north Caucasus and Turkey: the...
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| Lezgi Language | |||||
| Ubykh Language | |||||
| Lak Language | |||||
| Tsakhur Language | |||||
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| x Torricelli languages | Au Language |
The Torricelli languages are a language family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by only about 80,000 people. They are named after the Torricelli Mountains. The most populous and best known Torricelli languages...
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| Urat Language | |||||
| Yil Language | |||||
| Torricelli Language | |||||
| Monumbo Language | |||||
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| x Language isolate | Burushaski Language |
A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other...
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| Abinomn Language | |||||
| Yámana Language | |||||
| Puelche Language | |||||
| Gilyak Language | |||||
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| x Chimakuan languages |
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Quileute language |
The Chimakuan language family consists of two languages spoken in northwestern Washington, USA on the Olympic Peninsula. It is part of the Mosan sprachbund, and one of its languages is famous for having no nasal consonants. The two languages were...
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| Chemakum | |||||
| x Cariban languages |
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Hixkaryána Language |
The Cariban languages are an indigenous language family of South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, but also appear in central Brazil. Cariban languages are...
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| Macushi Language | |||||
| Akawaio Language | |||||
| Eñepa Language | |||||
| Trió Language | |||||
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| x Hmong-Mien languages |
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Iu Mien Language |
The Hmong–Mien AKA Miao–Yao languages are a language family of southern China and Southeast Asia. They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, and Hubei provinces, where its speakers...
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| She Language | |||||
| Hmong, Chonganjiang Language | |||||
| Hmong, Northern Qiandong Language | |||||
| Hmong, Northern Mashan Language | |||||
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| x Altaic languages |
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Khorasani Turkish Language |
Altaic is a proposed language family that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Japonic language families and the Korean language. These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and...
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| Khakas Language | |||||
| Turkmen Language | |||||
| Kazakh Language | |||||
| Tuvin Language | |||||
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| x Algic languages |
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Atikamekw Language |
The Algic (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan) languages are an indigenous language family of North America. Most Algic languages belong to the Algonquian family, dispersed over a broad area from the Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Canada....
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| Algonquin Language | |||||
| Cree, Swampy Language | |||||
| Massachusett Language | |||||
| Mi'kmaq language | |||||
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| x Hokan languages |
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Salinan Language |
The Hokan language family is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona and Mexico. In nearly a century since Edward Sapir first proposed the "Hokan" hypothesis, little additional evidence has been found...
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| Shasta Language | |||||
| Achumawi Language | |||||
| Maricopa Language | |||||
| Karok Language | |||||
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| x South Caucasian languages | South Caucasus | Karto-Zan languages | Georgian Language |
The Kartvelian languages (Georgian: ქართველური ენები) (also known as South Caucasian) are spoken primarily in Georgia, with large groups of native speakers in Russia, the United States, the European Union, Israel, and northeastern parts of Turkey....
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| Anatolia | Zan languages | Laz Language | |||
| Judeo-Georgian Language | |||||
| Mingrelian Language | |||||
| Megrelian language | |||||
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| x Sko languages | Warapu Language |
The Sko or Skou languages are a small language family spoken by about 7000 people, mainly along the coast of Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea, with a few being inland from this area and at least one just across the border in the Indonesian...
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| Krisa Language | |||||
| Wutung Language | |||||
| Vanimo Language | |||||
| Skou Language | |||||
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| x Chibchan languages |
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Cofán Language |
The Chibchan languages (also Chíbchan, Chibchano) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa...
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| Chibcha Language | |||||
| Pech Language | |||||
| Bribri Language | |||||
| Kuna, San Blas Language | |||||
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| x Macro-Gê languages |
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Ge-Kaingang Group | Maxakalí Language |
Macro-Jê (also spelled Macro-Gê) is a medium-sized language stock in South America centered on the Jê language family, with all other branches currently being single languages due to recent extinctions. The family was first proposed in 1926, and has...
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| Xavánte Language | |||||
| Canela Language | |||||
| Otuke Language | |||||
| Kaingáng, São Paulo Language | |||||
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| x Mayan languages |
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Itza' Language |
The Mayan languages (alternatively: Maya languages) form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6 million indigenous Maya, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and Honduras. In...
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| Chontal, Tabasco Language | |||||
| Kaqchikel, Central Language | |||||
| Awakateko Language | |||||
| Akateko Language | |||||
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| x Siouan languages |
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Ho-Chunk Language |
The Western Siouan languages, also called Siouan proper or simply Siouan, are a Native American language family of North America, and the second largest indigenous language family in North America, after Algonquian. The Western Siouan family is...
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| Lakota Language | |||||
| Mandan Language | |||||
| Assiniboine Language | |||||
| Crow Language | |||||
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| x Uralic languages |
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Finno-Ugric languages | Komi-Permyak Language |
The Uralic languages /jʊˈrælɨk/ (sometimes referred to as Uralian /jʊˈreɪliən/ languages) constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number...
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| Khanty Language | |||||
| Mansi Language | |||||
| Saami, North Language | |||||
| Saami, Skolt Language | |||||
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| x Pano-Tacanan languages |
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Cavineña Language |
Pano-Tacanan (also Pano-Takana, Pano-Takánan, Pano-Tacana, Páno-Takána) is a family of languages spoken in Peru, western Brazil, Bolivia and northern Paraguay. There are two branches, Panoan and Tacanan (Adelaar & Muysken 2004; Kaufman 1990, 1994),...
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| Araona Language | |||||
| Tacana Language | |||||
| Ese Ejja Language | |||||
| Reyesano Language | |||||
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| x Cant | Pitcairn-Norfolk Language |
A cant (or cryptolect) is the jargon or argot of a group, often implying its use to exclude or mislead people outside the group.
There are two main schools of thought on the origin of the word cant.
In Celtic linguistics, the derivation is normally...
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| x Choco languages |
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Emberá-Baudó Language |
The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama.
Choco consists of perhaps ten languages, half of them extinct.
Anserma, Cenu, Cauca, Sinúfana, Runa, and Kimbaya are...
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| Epena Language | |||||
| Runa Language | |||||
| Emberá-Tadó Language | |||||
| Emberá-Chamí Language | |||||
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| x Khoisan languages |
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Kalahari Desert | Tuu languages | !Xóõ Language |
The Khoisan languages (also known as the Khoesan or Khoesaan languages) are the click languages of Africa which do not belong to other language families. They were once thought to form a language family, but this is no longer generally accepted, and...
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| Tanzania | Khoe languages | N|u Language | |||
| Juu languages | Naro Language | ||||
| Juu-ǂHoan languages | !O!ung Language | ||||
| Kung-Ekoka Language | |||||
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| x Salishan languages |
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Okanagan Language |
The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a group of languages of the Pacific Northwest (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana). They are characterised by agglutinativity and...
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| Tillamook Language | |||||
| Halkomelem Language | |||||
| Cowlitz Language | |||||
| Comox Language | |||||
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| x Iroquoian languages |
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Cherokee Language |
The Iroquoian languages are a First Nation and Native American language family.
Scholars are finding that what has been called the Laurentian language appears to be more than one dialect or language.
In 1649 the tribes constituting the Huron and...
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| Oneida Language | |||||
| Wyandot Language | |||||
| Tuscarora Language | |||||
| Cayuga Language | |||||
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Obispeño Language |
Chumashan is a family of languages that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people.
From the Coastal plains and valleys of San Luis Obispo to Malibu), neighboring inland and Transverse Ranges valleys and canyons...
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| Ventureño Language | |||||
| Cruzeño Language | |||||
| Barbareño Language | |||||
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| x Totonacan languages | Totonac, Patla-Chicontla Language |
The Totonacan languages (AKA Totonac–Tepehua languages) are a family of closely related languages spoken by approximately 290,000 Totonac (approx. 280,000) and Tepehua (approx. 10,000) people in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo in Mexico....
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| Totonac, Ozumatlán Language | |||||
| Tepehua, Pisaflores Language | |||||
| Tepehua, Huehuetla Language | |||||
| Totonac, Papantla Language | |||||
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