Language Families

This language family has the most speakers

• Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetan

• Niger- Congo

• Afro-Asiatic

This language has the most total speakers in the world.

• Mandarin

• Russian

• English

• Indo- European

French is a part of which language branch?

• Balto-Slavic

• Indo-European

• Germanic

• Romance

English is a part of which language branch?

• Germanic

• Romance

• Sino- TIbetan

• Balto- Slavic

This language family is the predominant one south of the Sahara.

• Indo- European

• Niger- Congo

• Afro- Asiatic

• Sino- Tibetan

This language is spoken by the most people as a first language

• English

• Spanish

• Mandarin

• Welsh

This theory of the origin of Indo- European stems from Kurgan conquest

• Sedentary Farmer Hypothesis

• Nomadic Warrior Hypothesis

• Expansion Hypothesis

• Arithmatic Hypothesis

This theory of the origin of Indo- European language is with superior agricultural techniques.

• Sedentary Farmer Hypothesis

• Nomadic Warrior Hypothesis

• Physiological Hypothesis

• Agricultural Hypothesis

This term refers to a language used by people who speak different languages in order to understand each other.

• Mutual Language

• Understood Language

• Lingua Franca

• Vulgar Latin

A regional variation of a language that may have distinct pronunciation, spelling or vocabulary is a

• Official Language

• Working Language

• Threatened Language

• Dialect