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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
   

9. 
   

Tai-Kadai

1. Thai
   

2. 
   

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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