Home›Eurasian Language Families›Parent Family (Classification Tree)Browse ByParent 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.Parent Family (Classification Tree)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Parent Family (Classification Tree)Filter Results25 entriesMacro-areaAllAustroasiatic Languages (1)Caucasian Families (2)Indo-European Branches (12)Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches) (1)Indo-European: Balto-Slavic Branch (3)Indo-European: Celtic Branch (2)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (4)Indo-European: Hellenic Branch (1)Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch (4)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (3)Japonic and Koreanic (1)Sino-Tibetan Branches (6)Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien (1)Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic (1)Uralic Language Family (1)Speaker Count BandAll0 (2)24,600 to 795,000 (5)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (11)RegionAllAfrica (2)Anatolia (2)Asia (16)Austria (1)Azerbaijan (1)Bangladesh (1)Bengal (1)Central Asia (2)Central Europe (2)China (1)East Asia (3)Eastern Europe (3)Europe (11)Franconia (1)Frisia (1)Germany (1)India (1)Ireland (1)Italy (1)Japan (1)Laos (1)Myanmar (2)North America (1)Northeast India (2)Northern Europe (2)Siberia (1)South America (1)South Asia (3)Southeast Asia (2)Southern Europe (1)Switzerland (1)Thailand (2)The Arctic (1)The Balkans (1)The Caucasus (1)The Low Countries (1)United Kingdom (1)Vietnam (1)Western Asia (1)Western Europe (2)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (11)Classification StatusAllEstablished (17)Number of LanguagesAll2 (4)16 to 1,408 (9)3 to 5 (3)6 to 15 (8)In GroupAllAustroasiatic Languages (1)Caucasian Families (2)Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches) (1)Indo-European: Balto-Slavic Branch (3)Indo-European: Celtic Branch (2)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (4)Indo-European: Hellenic Branch (1)Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch (4)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (3)Japonic and Koreanic (1)Sino-Tibetan Branches (6)Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien (1)Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic (1)Uralic Language Family (1)Number of LanguagesAll3 (1)5 (1)9 (1)16 (1)20 (2)23 (1)36 (1)43 (1)45 (1)49 (1)53 (1)55 (1)77 (1)85 (1)89 (1)95 (1)96 (1)106 (1)158 (1)219 (1)321 (1)519 (1)586 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (20)Speaker CountAll500,000 (1)3,000,000 (1)21,300,000 (1)93,000,000 (1)117,000,000 (1)180,000,000 (1)200,000,000 (1)315,000,000 (1)322,000,000 (1)515,000,000 (1)800,000,000 (1)900,000,000 (2)1,000,000,000 (1)1,386,000,000 (1)1,700,000,000 (1)3,238,000,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAnglo-Frisian languagesParent Family (Classification Tree)2 entriesAustroasiaticParent Family (Classification Tree)2 entriesBalto-SlavicParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryBodish languagesParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryCelticParent Family (Classification Tree)3 entriesDagestanianParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryGermanicParent Family (Classification Tree)2 entriesGreater Magaric languagesParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryHrusish languagesParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryIndo-AryanParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryIndo-EuropeanParent Family (Classification Tree)7 entriesIndo-IranianParent Family (Classification Tree)2 entriesIranianParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryItalicParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryKarenicParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryKra-DaiParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryKuki-ChinParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryNorthwest CaucasianParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryRomanceParent Family (Classification Tree)2 entriesSino-TibetanParent Family (Classification Tree)7 entriesSlavicParent Family (Classification Tree)3 entriesSouthern Ryukyuan languagesParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryTurkicParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryUralicParent Family (Classification Tree)1 entryWest GermanicParent Family (Classification Tree)2 entriesComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.