Home›Eurasian Language Families›Region›AfricaBrowse ByAfricaRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.AfricaComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)AfricaFilter Results18 entriesMacro-areaAllIndo-European Branches (9)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (5)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (4)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Semitic and Afroasiatic (Asian Branches) (3)Sign Languages (5)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllItalic (1)West Germanic (1)Speaker Count BandAll0 (1)24,600 to 795,000 (4)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (3)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)Classification StatusAllEstablished (8)Number of LanguagesAll2 (2)16 to 1,408 (5)6 to 15 (1)In GroupAllIndo-European: Germanic Branch (5)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (4)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Semitic and Afroasiatic (Asian Branches) (3)Sign Languages (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 18Arab Sign Language familyAfricaBANZSLAfricaBritish Sign Language familyAfricaCanaaniteAfricaCastilian languagesAfricaEast Asian languagesAfricaEast GermanicAfricaFranconianAfricaFrench Sign Language familyAfricaGermanicAfricaHigh GermanAfricaLow FranconianAfricaRomanceAfricaSemiticAfricaSouth SemiticAfricaSouthern RomanceAfricaSwedish Sign Language familyAfricaWest IberianAfricaComments (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.