Home›Other Language Families of Asia›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 Results8 entriesRegionAllAsia (7)Central Asia (1)Europe (3)North America (1)South America (1)Speaker Count BandAll0 to 400,000 (1)16,000,000 to 59,000,000 (2)430,000 to 5,500,000 (3)60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 (3)Official StatusAllNational Language (Symbolic, Not Sole Official) (1)Official Language (6)StatusAllLiving (8)Script UsedAllCyrillic Script (2)Georgian Script (1)Han Script (1)Hangul (1)Hiragana (1)Katakana (1)Khmer Script (1)Lao Script (1)Latin Script (1)Mongolian Script (1)Thai Script (1)Language KindAllDefinitely Endangered (1)Safe (7)TonalAllNot Tonal (2)Tonal (3)Word OrderAllSOV (3)SVO (2)Period Start YearAll450 (1)601 (1)700 (1)1201 (1)1224 (1)1292 (1)1350 (1)1920 (1)Descends FromAllChungcheong Dialect (1)Gyeongsang Dialect (1)Hamgyong Dialect (1)Jeolla Dialect (1)Kansai Dialect (1)Kyushu Dialect (1)Pyongan Dialect (1)Tohoku Dialect (1)Classification ConfidenceAllEstablished (8)Number of LanguagesAll1 (1)2 (1)5 (1)15 (1)16 (1)17 (1)95 (1)158 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (6)Speaker CountAll75,000 (1)5,000,000 (1)5,700,000 (1)77,000,000 (1)93,000,000 (1)117,000,000 (1)129,000,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAustroasiaticLanguage Family (Classification)2 entriesJaponicLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryKartvelianLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryKoreanicLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryKra-DaiLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryMongolicLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryTaiLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryTungusicLanguage 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.