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In Group

In group places a language family inside the smaller branch it belongs to. Wikipedia notes Indo-European has "eight are still spoken: four by hundreds of millions of native speakers each (Indo-Iranian, Italic, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic), and four by fewer than fifteen million." This dimension nests a family inside the specific branch it sits within.

In Group

19 entries

Macro-area

Parent Family (Classification Tree)

Speaker Count Band

RegionShowing the 100 most common of 111 options.

Reconstructed Ancestor

Classification Status

Number of Languages

Estimated Living Languages

Austroasiatic Languages

Caucasian Families

Dravidian Language Family

Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches)

Indo-European: Armenian, Albanian and Paleo-Balkan

Indo-European: Balto-Slavic Branch

Indo-European: Celtic Branch

Indo-European: Germanic Branch

Indo-European: Hellenic Branch

Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch

Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch

Japonic and Koreanic

Language Isolates and Small Families

Semitic and Afroasiatic (Asian Branches)

Sign Languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien

Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic

Uralic Language Family