Quick Reference
LANGUAGE FAMILIES
Linguistics | Grammar | Verbs | Families
Altaic. Central Asia, includes Mongolian and Turkish.
Amerindian. Native north America.
Austronesian. South west Pacific.
Bantu. Sub-Saharan Africa: Xhosa and Zulu.
Dravidian. Central and southern India: Tamil and Telegu.
Finno-Ugrian. Finnish, Estonian, Magyar, Lappish.
Indo-Chinese. Mandarin,Cantonese, Wu, Tibetan.
Indo-European. The largest language family divided into the Western and Eastern branches.
Western Branch: Celtic (Breton, Gaelic, Welsh), Germanic (Afrikaans,Danish, Dutch, English, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Yiddish), Italic (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish).
Eastern Branch: Balto-Slavonic (Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Croatian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, russian, Serbian, Slovak, Ukranian), Albanian, Armenian, Indian (Assamese, Bengali, Bhili, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu), Iranian (Baluchi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Tadzhik).
Japanese. An isolated language
