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   Which languages belong to a language family?

   • However, most languages spoken throughout the world belong to a language family. For example, languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, and French, all belong to the language family known as “ romance languages .” The romance languages evolved from Latin, the language used in ancient Rome.

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   How many languages are in a language family?

   • A language family may contain any number of languages: some families, such as the Austronesian and Niger-Congo families, contain hundreds of different languages, while some languages, termed isolates, are not known to be related to any other languages and therefore constitute a family consisting of only one language.

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   Which language group is considered a separate family?

   • The classification of this group remains controversial and is sometimes considered a separate family. Most of the Sino-Tibetan languages are tonal, SOV, and have a mostly agglutinating morphology. The Tai or Kadai language family includes many of the languages of Southeast Asia.

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   How do languages differ from other languages in a family?

   • Families are further subdivided into branches of languages that diverged from each other only after splitting from the family’s common ancestor. These languages share more similarities with each other than with languages belonging to other branches within the family.

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   Jul 22, 2020 · And within any large language family, there might be smaller language families. Without extending the tree metaphor any further, the simplest definition of a language family is simply “any group of languages that share a common root language.” The Romance languages, for example, all come from Vulgar Latin.

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   As a corollary, every language isolate also forms its own language family — a genetic family which happens to consist of just one language. One often cited example is Basque, which forms a language family on its own; but there are many other examples outside

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   Oct 19, 2023 · Learn what a language family is and how it relates to a protolanguage. Explore examples of language families, such as the romance languages, the Germanic languages, and the Sino-Tibetan languages.

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   • Indo-European. Speakers: 3.5 billion (46% of Earth's population) Languages: 583. Location of origin: Ukraine and southern Russia. Time of origin: 4,500 BCE.
   • Sino-Tibetan. Speakers: 1.4 billion (18% of Earth's population) Languages: 501. Location of origin: northern China (Yellow River basin) Time of origin: 5,000 BCE.
   • Afro-Asiatic. Speakers: 500 million (7% of of Earth's population) Languages: 379. Location of origin: Sudan or Ethiopia. Time of origin: 18,000–8,000 BCE. Culture of origin: African hunter-gatherers (pre-Neolithic)
   • Niger-Congo. Speakers: 700 million (9% of Earth's population) Languages: 1,542. Location of origin: West Africa (speculative; Blench, 2006) Time of origin: 9,000–8,000 BCE (speculative; Blench, 2006)

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   Learn what a language family is and see some examples of language families and their branches. Find out how many language families and languages exist in the world and how they are classified.

7. blog.duolingo.com › language-families-relatedWhat Are Language Families, and Which Languages Are Related?

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   Oct 3, 2023 · Learn how languages are related through family trees and examples of language change. Find out how English, French, and other languages are part of the Indo-European family and how they evolved from Latin.

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   Learn what language families are, how they are related by common ancestry, and how they are classified by linguists. Explore the features and examples of some major language families, such as Indo-European, Uralic, Caucasian, and Altaic.