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Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
A navigational box that can be placed at the bottom of articles. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status State state The initial visibility of the navbox Suggested values collapsed expanded autocollapse String suggested Template transclusions Transclusion maintenance Check completeness of transclusions The above documentation is transcluded from Template ...
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in evolutionary taxonomy. Linguists thus ...
Display data about a language in a standard format Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Name name The English name of the language family String required Alternative name altname An alternative or additional English name of the language family Example Romantic String optional Acceptance acceptance The date of the ...
The appropriate language family for the purposes of determining the background color, chosen from a fixed set given in the documentation. String: required: Language Family: fam1: The broadest accepted language family the language belongs to. String: optional: Language Family 2: fam2: A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs ...
A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
Template: Infobox language/language family color table. 33 languages.