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| x Totonacan languages | Totonac, Patla-Chicontla Language |
The Totonacan Languages are a family of closely-related languages spoken by approximately 200,000 Totonac and Tepehua people in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo in Mexico. The Totonacan languages are not demonstrably related to any other...
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| Totonac, Ozumatlán Language | |||||
| Tepehua, Pisaflores Language | |||||
| Tepehua, Huehuetla Language | |||||
| Totonac, Papantla Language | |||||
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| x Wakashan languages |
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Heiltsuk Language |
Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
As typical of the Northwest...
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| Haisla Language | |||||
| Nootka Language | |||||
| Makah Language | |||||
| Kwakiutl language | |||||
| x Mataco-Guaicuru languages | Mocoví Language |
Mataco-Guaicuru or Macro-Waikurúan is a hypothetical language phylum consisting of the Guaicuruan, Matacoan, and sometimes Mascoian and Charruan language families. They are spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
http://www.ethnologue...
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| Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz Language | |||||
| Nivaclé Language | |||||
| Pilagá Language | |||||
| Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay Language | |||||
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| x Arauan languages | Culina Language |
Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Acre) and Peru.
Arauan consists of 8 or 9 languages:
The entire ethnic group that spoke Arawá became extinct in 1877 due to measles....
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| Jaruára Language | |||||
| Jamamadí Language | |||||
| Suruahá Language | |||||
| Dení Language | |||||
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| x Left May languages | Bo Language |
The Left May or Arai languages are a small language family of half a dozen closely related but not mutually intelligible languages in the centre of New Guinea, along the left bank of the May River. There are about 1600 speakers in all.
The languages...
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| Owiniga Language | |||||
| Ama Language | |||||
| Nimo Language | |||||
| Nakwi Language | |||||
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| x Eskimo-Aleut languages |
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Aleut Language |
Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula on the eastern tip of Siberia. It is also known as Eskaleut, Eskaleutian, Eskaleutic, Eskimish, Eskimoan, and Macro...
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| Inuktitut, Greenlandic Language | |||||
| Yupik, Naukan Language | |||||
| Yupik, Central Siberian Language | |||||
| Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska Language | |||||
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| x Barbacoan languages | Barbacoas Language |
Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador.
Barboacoan consists of 6 languages:
I. Northern
II. Southern ?
Pasto, Muellama, Coconuco, and Caranqui are now extinct.
Pasto and Muellama are...
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| Awa-Cuaiquer Language | |||||
| Chachi Language | |||||
| Totoro Language | |||||
| Colorado Language | |||||
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| x Witotoan languages | Bora Language |
Bora-Witóto (also Bora-Huitoto, Bora-Uitoto, or, ambiguously, Witotoan) is a proposal to unite the Bora and Witotoan language families of northeastern Peru (Loreto Region), southwestern Colombia (Amazonas Department), and western Brazil (Amazonas...
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| Muinane Language | |||||
| Huitoto, Nüpode Language | |||||
| Huitoto, Minica Language | |||||
| Ocaina Language | |||||
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| x Andamanese languages |
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Sentinel Language |
The Andamanese languages form a proposed language family spoken by the Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands, a union territory of India, whose validity is disputed. There are two clear families of Andamanese languages, Great Andamanese and...
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| Aka-Cari Language | |||||
| Jarawa Language | |||||
| Akar-Bale Language | |||||
| Önge Language | |||||
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| x Mixed language | Michif Language |
A mixed language is a language that arises through the fusion of two source languages, normally in situations of thorough bilingualism, so that it is not possible to classify the resulting language as belonging to either of the language families...
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| Media Lengua Language | |||||
| Mbugu Language | |||||
| Yeniche Language | |||||
| Camtho Language | |||||
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| x Mon-Khmer languages | Mon, Old |
The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous language family of Southeast Asia. Together with the Munda languages of India, they are one of the two traditional primary branches of the Austroasiatic family. However, several recent classifications...
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| x Kiowa-Tanoan languages |
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Piro Language |
Kiowa-Tanoan (also Tanoan-Kiowa) is a family of languages spoken in New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Most of the languages—Tiwa (Taos, Picuris, Southern Tiwa), Tewa, and Towa—are spoken in the Pueblos of New Mexico (with one outlier in...
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| Kiowa Language | |||||
| Tiwa, Southern Language | |||||
| Tiwa, Northern Language | |||||
| Jemez Language | |||||
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| x Kwomtari-Baibai languages | Nai Language |
The Kwomtari-Baibai or Kwomtari-Fas languages, often referred to ambiguously as Kwomtari, are a hypothetical language family of six languages spoken by some 4000 people in the north of Papua New Guinea, near the border with Indonesia. The term ...
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| Guriaso Language | |||||
| Pyu Language | |||||
| Fas Language | |||||
| Kwomtari Language | |||||
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| x Chon languages |
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Ona Language |
The Chon languages were spoken in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Two were known to exist - Selk'nam, which went extinct in 2003, and Tehuelche. The Selk'nam people were widely studied by anthropologists such as Martin Gusinde and Anne Chapman,...
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| Tehuelche Language | |||||
| x Muran languages | Pirahã Language |
Muran is a small language family of Amazonas, Brazil.
Muran consists of 4 languages:
Most Muran languages have died out due to the recent expansion of Brazilian Portuguese, mainly because they were spoken by so few people. Mura, Bohurá, and Yahahí...
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| x East Bird's Head languages | Manikion Language |
The East Bird's Head languages form a language family of three languages in the "Bird's Head" Peninsula of western New Guinea, spoken by only twenty thousand people in all.
Stephen Wurm identifies the subdivisions of his Papuan classification as...
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| Meyah Language | |||||
| Moskona Language | |||||
| x Muskogean languages |
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Chickasaw Language |
Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is an indigenous language family of the Southeastern United States. Though there is an ongoing debate concerning their interrelationships, the Muskogean languages are generally divided into two branches, Eastern...
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| Mikasuki Language | |||||
| Choctaw Language | |||||
| Muskogee Language | |||||
| Alabama Language | |||||
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| x Amto-Musan languages | Musan Language |
Amto-Musan is a language family of two closely related but not mutually intelligible Papuan languages, Amto and Siawi, of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Amto-Musan was left unclassified by Ross (2005) due to lack of data; Wurm (1975) had...
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| x Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages |
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Itelmen Language |
The Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages are a language family of northeastern Siberia. The family is also known as Chukchi-Kamchatkan.
Less commonly encountered names for the family are Chukchian, Chukotian, Chukotan, Kamchukchee and Kamchukotic. Of these...
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| Chukot Language | |||||
| Alutor Language | |||||
| Koryak Language | |||||
| Kerek Language | |||||
| x Lower Mamberamo languages | Warembori Language |
The Lower Mamberamo languages are a recently proposed language family linking two languages spoken along the northern coast of Papua province, Indonesia, near the mouth of the Mamberamo River.
The two languages, Warenbori and Yoke (also called Pauwi...
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| Yoke Language | |||||
| x Yukaghir languages |
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Yukaghir, Northern Language |
The Yukaghir languages (also Yukagir, Jukagir) are a small family of two closely related languages spoken by the Yukaghir in the Russian Far East living in the basin of the Kolyma River. The entire family is regarded as moribund, with a total of...
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| Yukaghir, Southern Language | |||||
| x Jivaroan languages | Achuar-Shiwiar Language |
Jivaroan (also Hívaro, Jívaro, Jibaroana, Jibaro) is a small language family, or perhaps a language isolate, of northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.
Jivaroan consists of 4 languages:
This language family is spoken in Amazonas, Cajamarca, Loreto, and...
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| Aguaruna Language | |||||
| Huambisa Language | |||||
| Shuar Language | |||||
| x Chapacura-Wanham languages | Pakaásnovos Language |
The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. There are three living Chapacuran languages, which are spoken in the southeastern Amazon Basin of Brazil and Bolivia. The languages in the family are...
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| Oro Win Language | |||||
| Itene Language | |||||
| Kabixí Language | |||||
| Torá Language | |||||
| x Misumalpan languages | Sumo-Mayangna Language |
The Misumalpan languages (also Misumalpa or Misuluan) are a small family of Native American languages spoken on the east coast of Nicaragua and nearby areas. Joseph Greenberg considers them to constitute a subfamily of the nuclear Chibchan group,...
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| Mískito Language | |||||
| Matagalpa Language | |||||
| Cacaopera Language | |||||
| x Paezan languages | Páez Language |
Paezan (also Páesan, Paezano, Interandine) is a hypothetical language family of Colombia and Ecuador.
Currently, Páez (Nasa Yuwe) is best considered either a language isolate or the only surviving member of an otherwise extinct language family ...
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| x Yeniseian languages |
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Ket Language |
The Yeniseian language family (sometimes known as Yeniseic or Yenisei-Ostyak; occasionally spelled with -ss-) is spoken in central Siberia.
0. Proto-Yeniseian (before 500 BC; split around 1 AD)
Only two languages of this family survived into the...
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| Kott | |||||
| Yugh language | |||||
| x Zamucoan languages |
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Ayoreo language |
Zamucoan (also Samúkoan) is a small language family of Paraguay (northeast Chaco) and Bolivia (Santa Cruz Department).
The family has hardly been studied by linguists (as of Adelaar & Muysken 2004).
Zamucoan consists of 2 languages:
Chamacoco is a...
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| Chamacoco language | |||||
| x Aymaran languages | Aymara, Southern Language |
Aymaran (also Jaqi, Aru, Jaqui, Aimara, Haki) is one of the two dominant language families of the central Andes, along with Quechuan.
Quechuan languages, especially that of the south, share a large amount of vocabulary with Aymara, and the languages...
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| Aymara, Central Language | |||||
| Jaqaru language | |||||
| x Bayono-Awbono languages | Bayono Language |
The Bayono-Awbono languages are a small family of Papuan languages, Bayono and Awbono, each spoken by a hundred people in the southeast of Papua province, Indonesia. The Bayono are monolingual.
The languages have only recently been recognized, and...
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| Awbono Language | |||||
| x Hurro-Urartian languages | Hurrian language |
The Hurro-Urartian languages are an extinct language family of the Ancient Near East, which comprises only two languages, Hurrian and Urartian, both of which were spoken in the Taurus mountains area.
Little is known about these ergative-agglunative...
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| Urartian language | |||||
| x Arutani-Sape languages | Sapé Language |
The Arutani-Sape are an endangered language family that includes two languages which are mainly spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. They are almost extinct. They are only distantly related, but Kaufman (1990) finds the connection convincing.
I. Arutani ...
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| Arutani language | |||||
| x Peba-Yaguan languages | Yameo Language |
The Peba-Yaguan language family (also Yaguan, Peban, Yáwan) is located in the northwestern Amazon, but today Yagua is the only remaining spoken language of the family.
The linguist Paul Rivet suggested that the Peba-Yaguan family divided into two...
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| Yagua Language | |||||
| x Caddoan languages |
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Caddo Language |
The Caddoan languages are a family of Native American languages. They are spoken by Native Americans throughout the Great Plains of the central United States, from North Dakota south to Oklahoma.
Five languages belong to the Caddoan language family:...
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| Pawnee Language | |||||
| Wichita Language | |||||
| Arikara Language | |||||
| Kitsai Language | |||||
| x Keresan languages |
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Keres, Western Language |
Keresan (pronounced /kəˈriːsən/), also Keres (/ˈkɛərɨs/), is a group of seven related languages spoken by Keres Pueblo peoples in New Mexico, U.S.A.. Each is mutually intelligible with its closest neighbors. There is significant diversity between...
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| Keres, Eastern Language | |||||
| x Cahuapanan languages | Jebero Language |
The Cahuapanan languages include two languages, Chayahuita and Jebero. They are spoken by more than 11,300 people in Peru. Chayahuita is spoken by most of that number, but Jebero is almost extinct.
I. Chayahuita (also known as Balsapuertino, Cahuapa...
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| Chayahuita Language | |||||
| x Australian Languages | Uradhi Language | ||||
| Wambaya Language | |||||
| Warluwara Language | |||||
| Bandjalang Language | |||||
| Dyaabugay Language | |||||
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| x Ancient Languages | |||||
| x Yanomam Languages | |||||
| x Lule-Vilela Languages | Vilela Language | ||||
| x Japanese Languages | Yaeyama Language | ||||
| x Huavean Languages | |||||
| x Mascoian Languages | |||||
| x Maku Languages | |||||
| x Artificial language Languages | Europanto Language | ||||
| Interlingua Language | |||||
| x Isolate Languages | |||||
| x Basque Languages | Basque Language | ||||
| x Guahiban Languages | |||||
| x Salivan Languages | |||||
| x Nambiquaran Languages | |||||
| x Mosetenan Languages | |||||
| x Yuki Languages | Wappo Language | ||||
| x Tyrrhenian Languages | |||||
| x Katukinan Languages | |||||
| x Coahuiltecan Languages | Tonkawa Language | ||||
| x Harakmbet Languages | Amarakaeri Language | ||||
| x Subtiaba-Tlapanec Languages | Tlapanec, Azoyú Language | ||||
| x Araucanian Languages | Mapudungun Language | ||||
| Huilliche Language | |||||
| x Gulf Languages | Tunica Language | ||||
| Atakapa Language | |||||
| x Alacalufan Languages | Qawasqar Language | ||||
| x Uru-Chipaya Languages | |||||
