Home›Languages›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 Results80 entriesSpeaker CountAll0 (1)14,000 (1)96,000 (1)100,000 (1)180,000 (1)320,000 (1)2,200,000 (1)5,000,000 (1)5,700,000 (1)6,000,000 (2)12,928,780 (1)13,500,000 (1)13,800,000 (1)15,500,000 (1)20,000,000 (1)30,000,000 (1)31,000,000 (1)40,000,000 (2)60,000,000 (1)70,000,000 (1)75,000,000 (1)76,500,000 (1)77,000,000 (1)85,000,000 (1)93,000,000 (1)108,000,000 (1)117,000,000 (1)129,000,000 (1)185,775,000 (1)200,000,000 (1)225,000,000 (1)253,000,000 (1)322,000,000 (1)326,000,000 (1)350,000,000 (1)385,500,000 (1)499,000,000 (1)500,000,000 (1)515,000,000 (1)800,000,000 (1)1,700,000,000 (1)3,238,000,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAfro-AsiaticLanguage Family (Classification)15 entriesAlgonquianLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryAltaicLanguage Family (Classification)1 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