Home›Eurasian Language Families›Region›North AmericaBrowse ByNorth AmericaRegion 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.North AmericaComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)North AmericaFilter Results7 entriesMacro-areaAllIndo-European Branches (4)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (2)Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch (1)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (1)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Semitic and Afroasiatic (Asian Branches) (1)Sign Languages (1)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllIndo-European (1)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (3)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)Classification StatusAllEstablished (4)Number of LanguagesAll16 to 1,408 (4)In GroupAllIndo-European: Germanic Branch (2)Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch (1)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (1)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Semitic and Afroasiatic (Asian Branches) (1)Sign Languages (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 7Dene-CaucasianNorth AmericaFrench Sign Language familyNorth AmericaGallo-RomanceNorth AmericaGermanicNorth AmericaHigh GermanNorth AmericaIndo-IranianNorth AmericaSemiticNorth AmericaComments (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.