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The finer grouping layer beneath this atlas's five driver type categories, forty three live entities strong as of this wave: twenty two family groupings under Languages, six under Scripts, six under Language Families, five under Dialects and Varieties, and four under Linguists. A subcategory exists so a category holding hundreds of entities, or in language family's case several hundred, can still be browsed as a set of human sized groups rather than one long flat list, and each carries its own prose explaining what belongs in it and what does not.

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Abjads

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Abugidas

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African Language Families

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Alphabets

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Anthropological and Documentary Linguistics

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Australian Language Families

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Austronesian Languages

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Baltic, Armenian, Albanian, Hellenic and Ancestral Indo-European Languages

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Bantu Languages

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Celtic Languages

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Dravidian Languages

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English Dialects and Varieties

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Eurasian Language Families

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French Dialects and Varieties

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German Dialects and Varieties

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Germanic Languages

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Historical and Comparative Linguistics

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Indigenous Languages of the Americas

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Indo-Aryan Languages

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Internal System Reference

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Iranian Languages

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Language Isolates, Creoles and Pidgins

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Logographic Scripts

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Logo-Syllabic Scripts

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Magazine Feature

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National Museum

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New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

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North American Language Families

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Online Encyclopedia Article

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Other Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Khoisan Languages

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Other Dialects and Varieties

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Other Language Families of Asia

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Other Niger-Congo Languages

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Papuan and Australian Languages

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

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Philology and Decipherment

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Reference Article

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Romance Languages

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Semitic Languages

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Sino-Tibetan Languages

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Slavic Languages

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South American Language Families

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Spanish Dialects and Varieties

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Structural and Theoretical Linguistics

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Syllabaries

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Turkic Languages

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Uralic Languages

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Wikipedia Article

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