Language Family

• ●  languages spoken in North and South America before contact with Europeans started in the 15th century.

• ●  There are about 4.5 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives in the United States today.

• Amerindian or Native American family

• 0. Eskimo-Aleutian

• 0. Papuan family

• 0. Australian Aboriginal family

consists of two groups (Aleut and Eskimo).

Aleut, distantly related to the Eskimo languages, consists of eastern and western dialects;

today both are spoken by fewer than 400 people. Its territory in

Alaska

encompasses the Aleutian Islands

• 0. Eskimo-Aleutian

• Amerindian or Native American family

• 0. Papuan family

• 0. Australian Aboriginal family

• ●  group of languages spoken in New Guinea and its surrounds. The area includes the entire island of New Guinea and the offshore islands of New Britain, New Ireland, Sorenarwa (Yapen), and Biak, as well as the adjoining areas of eastern Indonesia, especially the islands of Timor, Alor, and Halmahera.

• ●  There are nearly 850 languages spoken in the country, making it the most linguistically diverse place on earth.

• ●  Papua New Guinea is the most multilingual country, with over 839 living languages.

• 0. Papuan family

• 0. Eskimo-Aleutian

• 0. Australian Aboriginal family

• Austronesian family

• ●  can trace as much as 11% of their genomes to migrants who reached the island around 4,000 years ago from India. This shows that they have some Indian DNA.

• ●  the number of Aboriginal people able to speak an Aboriginal language (260,550)

• ●  Australia's Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and

  Torres Strait Islander peoples.

• 0. Australian Aboriginal family

• 0. Papuan family

• Austronesian family

• 0. Austro-Asiatic family

• ●  include: Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan and Pangasinan, which are spoken in the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau.

• ●  is considered as the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers.

• ●  form one of the world's largest language families, considering the number of languages included and the number of geographic locations in which they are spoken.

• Austronesian family

• 0. Australian Aboriginal family

• 0. Austro-Asiatic family

• Sino-Tibetan family

• ●  are a large family in mainland southeast Asia and south Asia.

• ●  These languages scattered throughout parts of Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China.

• ●  There are around 117 million speakers.

• 0. Austro-Asiatic family

• Sino-Tibetan family

• Dravidian family

• Caucasian family

• ●  language family includes Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese.

• ●  It's represented by more than 400 modern languages spoken in China, India, Burma, and

  Nepal.

• ●  Spoken by 1.4 billion speakers.

• ●  It's one of the largest language families in the world, with more first-language speakers

  than even Indo-European

• Sino-Tibetan family

• 0. Austro-Asiatic family

• Dravidian family

• Caucasian family

languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan.

These languages are approximately 4,500 years old.

● Four of these languages are among the major literary languages of southern India—Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

• Dravidian family

• Sino-Tibetan family

• 0. Austro-Asiatic family

• Austronesian family

●     Caucasian (or Paleocaucasian), Indo-European, Turkic, and Semitic. 

●     The Caucasus Mountains between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea are the source of the Caucasian Family’s name.

●     They have made vain attempts to draw comparisons between Caucasian languages and languages spoken elsewhere. They did, however, succeed in drawing connections between the extinct languages of Mesopotamia and Anatolia, which were spoken in modern-day Turkey and Iraq, and the North Caucasian languages.

Caucasian languages are spoken by a total of about 8.5 million people. Most of them are minority languages with no official recognition.   

• Caucasian family

• Dravidian family

• Sino-Tibetan family

• 0. Austro-Asiatic family

• ●  is a group of languages that are spoken in southern Africa; also known as the click language.

• ●  language family is the smallest of the language families of Africa.

• ●  The name is a blend of south Africa and Namibia

• ●  existed 22,000 years ago, and Khoisan’s were considered the largest

  group of humans on earth ●

  , unfortunately this language is being increasingly threatened and as a consequent number of speakers is rapidly decreasing.

• ●  The Khoisan languages have complex sound systems with clicks and consonants at the start of words, followed by vowels.

• 0. Khoisan family

• 0. Nilo-Saharan family

• 0. Niger-Congo family

• Uralic family