A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...

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...

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, the overwhelming majority of Europe, and the Iranian plateau...

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe...

Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in...

Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and...

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute a major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is frequently proposed that there...

inventor of the language, Goídel Glas. The family tree of the Goidelic languages, within the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, is as follows...

The Kra–Dai languages (/ˈkrɑː.daɪ/ KRAH-dy, also known as Tai–Kadai /ˈtaɪ.kəˌdaɪ/ TIE-kə-DYE and Daic /ˈdaɪ.ɪk/ DYE-ik), are a language family in mainland...

The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. The...

an extinct family of closely related ancient languages put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998, which consists of the Etruscan language of northern...

The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/ AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland...

The Tungusic languages /tʊŋˈɡʊsɪk/ (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic...

may apply either: to all the modern-day languages of this family except the French language; or to this family including French. "Oïl dialects" or "French...

stages to occur. A group of languages that descend from a common ancestor is known as a language family; in contrast, a language that has been demonstrated...

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...

traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as...

southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.5 billion speakers, predominantly...

Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia...

family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language...

Algonquian languages (/ælˈɡɒŋk(w)iən/ al-GONG-k(w)ee-ən; also Algonkian) are a family of Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the...

ɪk/) languages consist of the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families, with some linguists including the Koreanic and Japonic families.: 73 ...

is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally...

the Samoyedic languages. Scholars who do not accept the traditional notion that Samoyedic split first from the rest of the Uralic family may treat the...

The Yuman–Cochimí languages are a family of languages spoken in Baja California, northern Sonora, southern California, and western Arizona. Cochimí is...

Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include...

The Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East. Its extent is not yet known, because only some of the...

The C-family programming languages share significant features of the C programming language. Many of theses 70 languages were developmentally influenced...

them an orphaned language. One example is the Ket language spoken in central Siberia, which belongs to the wider Yeniseian language family; had it been discovered...