This document classifies and describes the major human language families. It identifies Indo-European languages as the largest family and notes they originated from a common Proto-Germanic language. The document breaks down Indo-European languages into subgroups like Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Italic, and Slavic. It also summarizes the characteristics of eight non-Indo-European language families and provides some examples of languages within each family.

1. Classification of
Human Languages
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2. Major language families
• Indo-European languages
• Other
o Afro-Asiatic languages
o Niger-Congo languages
o Uralic languages
o Dravidian languages
o Sino-Tibetan languages
o Austro-Asiatic languages
o Tai-Kadai languages
o Eskimo-Aleut languages
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3. Indo-European languages
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4. Indo-European languages
• Indo-Iranian languages
o Indo-Aryan languages
o Iranian languages
• Germanic languages
• Italic languages
• Slavic languages
• Celtic languages
• Greek
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5. Indo-Iranian languages
• Indo-Aryan languages
o Sanskrit
o Hindustani
• Hindi
• Urdu
o Bengali
o Punjabi
o Marathi
o Sinhalese
• Iranian languages
o Persian
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6. Indo-Aryan languages
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7. Iranian languages
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8. Germanic languages
• They came from one language, "Proto-
Germanic", and were originally spoken in
northern, western and central Europe.
• Main languages are;
o English
o German
o Saxon
o Dutch
o Afrikaans
o Scots
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9. Italic languages
• Latin
• Romance languages
o French
o Italian
o Portuguese
o Spanish
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10. Slavic languages
• Bulgarian
• Czech
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovak
• Serbian
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11. Celtic languages
• Goidelic languages
o Scottish Gaelic
o Irish
o Manx
• Brythonic languages
o Welsh
o Breton
o Cornish
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12. Other languages
(non Indo-European)
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13. Other languages
• Afro-Asiatic languages
• Niger-Congo languages
• Uralic languages
• Dravidian languages
• Sino-Tibetan languages
• Austro-Asiatic languages
• Tai-Kadai languages
• Eskimo-Aleut languages
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14. Afro-Asiatic languages
• Arabic
• Hebrew
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15. Niger-Congo languages
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16. Uralic languages
• Hungarian
• Finnish
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17. Dravidian languages
• Telugu
• Tamil
• Kannada
• Malayalam
• Brahui
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18. Sino-Tibetan languages
• Chinese
o Mandarin
• Nepal Bhasa
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19. Austro-Asiatic languages
• Vietnamese
• Khmer
• Mon
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20. Tai-Kadai languages
• Thailand
• Laos
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21. Japonic languages
• Japan
• Korea
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22. References
• https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_families
• https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-
European_languages
• https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-
Iranian_languages
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_schemes_f
or_Southeast_Asian_languages
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonic_languages
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