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'''The important language groups of the World

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Afroasiatic languages

 * 1  Akkadian and Assyro-Babilonian     Ashur
 * 2  Aramaic and Arabic   Aram"
 * 3  Southern Semitic
 * 4  Egyptian
 * 5  Berber
 * 6  Chadic
 * 7  Cushitic

==== Indo-European Languages ====       Iranian Indo-Aryan Slavic Baltic
 * 8  Anatolian?
 * 9  Germanic    (centum)
 * 10 Celtic      (centum)
 * 11 Italic      (centum)
 * 12 Greek
 * 13 Armenian
 * 14 Indo-Iranian
 * 15 Balkan    (Albanian, Dacian, Phrygian, Thracian)
 * 16 Balto-Slavic
 * 17 Tocharian

Uralic
Finno-Permic Ugric Samoyedic
 * 18 Uralic


 * 20 Dravidian

Altaic languages
Japonic Japanese Ryukyuan Korean
 * 21 Turkic
 * 22 Mongolic
 * 23 Tungusic
 * 23 Korean-Japonic


 * 24 Kartvelian (South Caucasian)


 * 25 NorthEast Caucasian  ( J1 ? )


 * 26 NorthWest Caucasian

Paleo-Siberian languages


 * 27 Nivkh (Gilyak)
 * ?  Chukchi-Kamchatkan


 * 19 Yukaghir


 * 56 Eskimo-Aleut   (in America)

Sino-Tibetan


 * 28     Chinese
 * 29     Tibeto-Burman  (including Karen languages)

Austric

Nuclear Mon-Khmer Khasi-Khmuic Munda
 * 30 Austro-Asiatic

Formosan (in Taiwan) Malayo-Polynesian Borneo (in Philippines) Sunda-Sulawesi (including Chamorro) Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
 * 31 Austronesian

Hlai Kra Kam-Sui (in China) Ong-Be (in China) Tai (Daic)
 * 32 Kradai (Tai–Kadai) (affinities to Austronesian and Sino-Tibetan)                ( Haplogroup D? )


 * 33 Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao)               ( Haplogroup D? )


 * 34 Ainu                            ( Haplogroup D? )

Indo-Pacific


 * 35      Andamanese  (Andaman Islands)        [Haplogroup D?]

Papuan


 * 36 Trans–New Guinea (TNG)              [Indo-Pacific]

West Papuan Yawa East Bird's Head-Sentani
 * 37 Border (Tami)
 * 38 Extended West Papuan


 * 39 South-Central Papuan languages    $


 * 40 Lakes Plain


 * 41 Ramu–Lower Sepik (including Mairasi)   $
 * 42 Nimboran
 * 43 Eastern Trans-Fly languages
 * 44 Tor-Kwerba


 * 45 Tasmanian   (in Australia)          Indo-Pacific

Macro–Pama-Nyungan Gunwinyguan Greater Pama-Nyungan (includung proper Pama-Nyungan) Ngumbur (isolate?) West Barkly, probably also Macro–Pama-Nyungan
 * 46 Indigenous Australian languages

Yirram - Indigenous Australian isolate, suggested to be related to West Barkly Tiwi language isolate (may be related to Gunwinyguan)

Burarran Iwaidjan Giimbiyu Gaagudju Umbugarla
 * Amhem Family

(Is there "North-Australian Group ? " ??? )

Nyulnyulan languages Bunuban languages Worrorran languages Jarrakan languages Daly languages Limilngan languages Laragiya language isolate

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Na-Dene    (in America) Yeniseian  (including Ket)
 * 57 Dene-Yenisean

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 * 58 Nilo-Saharan    {Africa}


 * 59 Niger-Congo     {Africa}


 * 60 Khoisan         {Africa}


 * 61 Hadza           {Africa}   [isolate]


 * 62 Sandawe         {Africa}   [isolate]

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Amerind languages

Almosan and Keresiouan Penutian and Hokan Aztec-Tanoan Oto-Manguean Andean, Chibchan and Paezan Misumalpan ? Equatorial and Tucanoan Macro (Carib, Panoan and Ge)
 * 63  Northern Amerind
 * 64  Central Amerind
 * 65  Southern Amerind

Language Isolates

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West Asia


 * 1 Sumerian                           J1


 * 2 Elamite language       "Elam"  J*

Europe


 * 3 Basque


 * 4 Iberian    ?


 * 5 Etruscan  (may be related to other Tyrsenian languages:      Raetic, Lemnian)

Central and South Asia


 * 6 Burushaski


 * 7 Gilyak

(suggeted affinities: Tibeto-Burman, Munda, Yeniseian, Burushaski, "Sino-Caucasian", Nihali )
 * 8 Kusunda                  (in Nepal)  "relic"


 * 9 Vedda                    "relic"   (in Sri Lanka)