List of language families explained

This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article "List of proposed language families".

List of language families

Spoken language families

Sign language families

See also: List of sign languages. The family relationships of sign languages are not well established due to a lagging in linguistic research, and many are isolates (cf. Wittmann 1991).[4]

Family NameLocation Number of
Europe, the Americas, Francophone Africa, parts of Asia Over 50
4–10
6–10
3
3
3
China (including Hong Kong and Macau) 2

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Glottolog 5.0 - . 2024-06-28 . glottolog.org.
  2. Web site: What are the largest language families?. May 25, 2019. Ethnologue.
  3. Web site: North Caucasian. Ethnologue. https://web.archive.org/web/20160702003822/http://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/north-caucasian-1. July 2, 2016. July 17, 2016.
  4. Wittmann. Henri. 1991. Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement. Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée. 10. 1. 215–288. fr.