language family
group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor
North Sea Germanic
group of North West Germanic languages
French-based creole languages
language family
Cushitic
branch of Afroasiatic native to the Punt peninsula of the Horn of Africa
Algonquian
subfamily of Native American languages
Yukaghir
small family of two closely related languages – Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir – spoken by the Yukaghir in the Russian Far East living in the basin of the Kolyma River
Goidelic
Celtic language family
Highland East Cushitic
language family
Brythonic
subfamily of Celtic languages, including Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Cumbric
Ethiopian Semitic
language family
Central Sudanic
language family
Southwestern Iranian
language family
Nilotic
small language family of East Africa
Arawakan
language family
West Central German
language
East Formosan
Austronesian language family of Taiwan
East New Britain
language family
Iberian Romance
Romance languages developed on the Iberian Peninsula
Austric
disputed large hypothetical grouping of languages primarily spoken in Southeast Asia and Pacific; includes the Austronesian and Austroasiatic language families
Bel
language family
Philippine
language family
Northern Quechua
language subfamily
Cross River
language family
Greater North Borneo
subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Bisayan
language family of the Philippines
Eastern Sudanic
proposed language family
Eastern Algonquian
subgroup of the Algonquian languages
Ogoni
Cross River language group of Nigeria
Southwestern Brythonic
Branch of Brittonic containing Cornish and Breton
Shona languages
Bantu language family
Fur
Small language family of Sudan and Chad
North and Central Vanuatu
subgroup of Oceanic languages
New Caledonian
subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Southeast Solomonic
languages of the Solomon Islands
Atlas
subgroup of the Northern Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Central and South New Guinea
proposed Trans–New Guinea language family
Ramu
language family of Papua New Guinea
Arnhem Land languages
language family in the NorthernTerritory of Australia
Upper Cross River
Cross River language branch of Nigeria
Basa
cluster of Kainji languages spoken in Nigeria
East Plateau
language family
Eastern Grassfields
Grassfields language branch of Cameroon
Eastern Trans-Fly
Language family of New Guinea
Rai Coast
New Guinean language family
West Bird's Head
small family of poorly known Papuan languages spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea