List of language families
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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[edit]
Spoken language families[edit]
Sign language families[edit]
The family relationships of sign languages are not well established due to a lagging in linguistic research, and many are isolates (cf. Wittmann 1991).[3]
Family Name | Location | Number of Languages |
---|---|---|
French Sign | Europe, the Americas, Francophone Africa, parts of Asia | Over 50 |
British Sign | United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa | 4–10 |
Arab Sign | Much of the Arab World | 6–10 |
Japanese Sign | Japan, Korea, Taiwan | 3 |
German Sign | Germany, Poland, Israel | 3 |
Swedish Sign | Sweden, Finland, Portugal | 3 |
Chinese Sign | China (including Hong Kong and Macau) | 2 |
See also[edit]
- Constructed language – Consciously devised language
- Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct
- Ethnologue#Language families
- Extinct language – Language that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers
- Index of language articles
- Intercontinental Dictionary Series – Linguistics database
- International auxiliary language – Constructed language meant to facilitate communication
- Glottolog#Language families
- Language isolate#List of language isolates by continent
- Lists of languages
- List of proposed language families
References[edit]
- ^ "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019.
- ^ "North Caucasian". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
- ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement" (PDF). Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée (in French). 10 (1): 215–288.
External links[edit]
- Glottolog
- Ethnologue
- MultiTree Project Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Comparative Swadesh list tables of various language families (from Wiktionary)