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LINGUISTIC AREAS

Languages of North America

Languages of Meso-America

Languages of South America

Languages of Africa

Languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Languages of South Asia

Languages of Southeast Asia

Languages of Australia


LANGUAGES by COUNTRY

Afghanistan

Bhutan


LANGUAGE FAMILIES

Afro-Asiatic

  1. Berber

  2. Chadic

  3. Hausa

  4. Cushitic

  5. Oromo

  6. Somali

  7. Egyptian

  8. Omotic

  9. Semitic

  10. Akkadian

  11. Amharic

  12. Arabic

  13. Hebrew

  14. Phoenician


Altaic

  1. Mongolic

  2. Mongolian

  3. Tungusic

  4. Turkic

  5. Azerbaijanian

  6. Chuvash

  7. Kazakh

  8. Kirghiz

  9. Tatar

  10. Turkish

  11. Turkmen

  12. Uyghur

  13. Uzbek

  14. Yakut


Australian Languages


Austroasiatic

  1. Mon-Khmer

  2. Khmer

  3. Vietnamese

  4. Munda Languages


Austronesian

  1. Fijian

  2. Javanese

  3. Malay

  4. Tagalog


Caucasian

  1. Georgian


Chukotko-Kamchatkan


Dravidian

  1. Kannada

  2. Malayalam

  3. Tamil

  4. Telugu


Eskimo-Aleut


Hmong-Mien


Indo-European

  1. Albanian

  2. Albanian

  3. Anatolian

  4. Hittite

  5. Luvian

  6. Palaic

  7. Lycian

  8. Lydian

  9. Carian

  10. Armenian

  11. Armenian

  12. Baltic

  13. Lithuanian

  14. Celtic

  15. Breton

  16. Cumbric

  17. Gaulish

  18. Hispano-Celtic (Celtiberian)

  19. Irish

  20. Manx

  21. Pictish

  22. Scottish Gaelic

  23. Welsh

  24. Germanic

  25. Afrikaans

  26. Danish

  27. Dutch

  28. English

  29. German

  30. Gothic

  31. Icelandic

  32. Norwegian

  33. Swedish

  34. Hellenic

  35. Greek

  36. Indo-Aryan

  37. Assamese

  38. Bengali

  39. Dardic Languages

  40. Gujarati

  41. Hindi

  42. Kashmiri

  43. Marathi

  44. Nepali

  45. Oriya

  46. Pali

  47. Prakrits

  48. Punjabi

  49. Romani

  50. Sanskrit

  51. Sindhi

  52. Sinhalese

  53. Urdu

  54. Iranian

  55. Avestan

  56. Bactrian

  57. Chorasmian

  58. Khotanese and Tumshuquese

  59. Kurdish

  60. Modern Persian

  61. Old Persian

  62. Pahlavi

  63. Parthian

  64. Pashto

  65. Sogdian

  66. Italic

  67. Catalan

  68. French

  69. Italian

  70. Latin

  71. Oscan

  72. Portuguese

  73. Romanian

  74. Spanish

  75. Umbrian

  76. Venetic

  77. Slavic

  78. Bulgarian

  79. Czech

  80. Old Church Slavonic

  81. Polish

  82. Russian

  83. Serbo-Croat

  84. Ukrainian

  85. Tocharian

  86. Tocharian A

  87. Tocharian B

  88. Unclassified

  89. Phrygian


Khoisan


Niger-Congo

  1. Adamawa-Ubangi

  2. Atlantic

  3. Fula

  4. Wolof

  5. Benue-Congo

  6. Igbo

  7. Yoruba

  8. Bantu Languages

  9. Swahili

  10. Zulu

  11. Gur

  12. Ijoid

  13. Kordofanian

  14. Kru

  15. Kwa

  16. Mande


Nilo-Saharan

  1. Dinka

  2. Kanuri

  3. Songhay Languages


North American Languages

  1. Navajo


Meso-American Languages

  1. Mayan Languages

  2. Oto-Manguean Languages

  3. Uto-Aztecan Languages


South American Languages

  1. Aymara

  2. Guarani

  3. Mapudungun

  4. Quechua


Papuan Languages


Sino-Tibetan

  1. Sinitic

  2. Chinese

  3. Tibeto-Burman

  4. Burmese

  5. Garo

  6. Karen Languages

  7. Meithei

  8. Tibetan


Tai-Kadai

  1. Thai


Uralic

  1. Finnish

  2. Hungarian


LANGUAGE ISOLATES AND UNCLASSIFIED

  1. Ainu

  2. Basque

  3. Etruscan

  4. Japanese

  5. Korean

  6. Sumerian




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