Home›Language Isolates, Creoles and Pidgins›Language Family (Classification)Browse ByLanguage Family (Classification)This dimension links a language to the wider family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes Spanish as "a Romance language of the Indo-European language family," placing it inside two nested groupings at once. Browsing by language family gathers languages that share the same distant common ancestor.Language Family (Classification)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Language Family (Classification)Filter Results3 entriesRegionAllAfrica (1)Central Africa (1)Europe (1)North America (1)Speaker Count BandAll0 to 400,000 (1)5,600,000 to 15,000,000 (1)60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 (1)Official StatusAllNo Official Status (2)Official Language (1)StatusAllExtinct (1)Living (2)Script UsedAllLatin Script (2)Old Italic Script (1)Language KindAllExtinct (1)Safe (2)Period Start YearAll-700 (1)1601 (1)1757 (1)Classification ConfidenceAllEstablished (1)Speaker CountAll0 (1)15,500,000 (1)76,500,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareEnglish-based CreoleLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryFrench-based CreoleLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryTyrsenianLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryComments (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.