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Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Parent family traces a language family back to the single reconstructed ancestor it descends from. Wikipedia notes "all Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European," spoken thousands of years before any written record. This dimension links a family back to the deeper ancestral family behind it.

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Comparison

Estimated Living Languages

2100 1

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Indo-European

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Malayo-Polynesian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Sino-Tibetan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Trans-New Guinea

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Benue-Congo

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Niger-Congo

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Celtic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Chadic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Afro-Asiatic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Anglo-Frisian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Celebic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Central Philippine languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Cushitic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Formosan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Indo-Iranian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Nuclear Polynesian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Omotic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Romance

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Slavic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Volta-Congo

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

West Germanic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Atlantic-Congo

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Austroasiatic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Austronesian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Balto-Slavic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bantu

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bodish languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Central Sudanic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Germanic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Indo-Aryan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Iranian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Italic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Mande

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Western Malayo-Polynesian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Agaw languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Anatolian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Angami-Pochuri languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Angan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Anglic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Ao languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Aroid

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Atayalic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Avar-Andic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Baltic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bantoid languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Batak

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bikol

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bisayan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Biu-Mandara languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bole-Tangale languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Boro-Garo languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bosavi languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Botatwe languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Brittonic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bua languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Bungku-Tolaki languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Burmish languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Central Loloish languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Central Malayo-Polynesian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Chepangic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Chimbu-Wahgi

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Circassian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Common Turkic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Continental Celtic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Cross River languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Dagestanian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Defoid languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Digaro languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Dizoid

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

East Bodish languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

East Chadic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

East Cushitic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

East Formosan languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

East Slavic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Eastern Iranian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Eastern Romance

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Edoid languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Ellicean languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Engan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Ethio-Semitic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Finisterre-Huon languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Franconian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Frisian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Goidelic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Goilalan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Graeco-Phrygian languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Greater Magaric languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Gujarati languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Gur

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Gurage languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Hellenic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Hrusish languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Ijoid

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Kam-Tai languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Karenic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Kra-Dai

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Kuki-Chin

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Kwa

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Macro-Yaeyama languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Mangbutu-Lese languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Marquesic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Mbum-Day languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Miji languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Mon-Khmer languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Munda

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Ngayarda languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

North Germanic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Northeastern Kuki-Chin languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Northern South Sulawesi languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Northwest Caucasian

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Pama-Nyungan

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Pwo Karen languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Samoyedic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

South Slavic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

South Sulawesi languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Southern Mande languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Southern Ryukyuan languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Tahitic languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Turkic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Uralic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

West Slavic

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Western Romance

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Wotu-Wolio languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Yareban languages

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Africa

Wikimedia FoundationLead section

Quote, Lead section

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.

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