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Language families

Afroasiatic languages
Large language family of Africa and West Asia
Algic languages
Language family indigenous to North America, including the Algonquian languages
Altaic languages
Hypothetical language family
Austroasiatic languages
Language family concentrated in Southeast Asia
Austronesian languages
Large language family mostly of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Bantu languages
Large language family spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa
Celtic languages
Language family
Creole language
Stable natural languages that have developed from a pidgin
Dravidian languages
Language family mostly of southern India
Eskaleut languages
Language family
Frisian languages
Group of Germanic languages
Germanic languages
Subgroup of the Indo-European language family
Indo-Aryan languages
Branch of the Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-European languages
Large language family originating in Eurasia
Iranian languages
Branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family
Japonic languages
Language family of Japan
Kartvelian languages
Language family
Khoisan languages
African language family
Koreanic languages
Language family
Kra–Dai languages
Language family of Mainland Southeast Asia
Language family
Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor
Language isolate
Natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages
Mayan languages
Language family spoken in Mesoamerica
Niger–Congo languages
Large language family of Sub-Saharan Africa
Nilo-Saharan languages
Large proposed language family of Africa
North Caucasian languages
Proposed language family
North Germanic languages
Branch of Germanic languages spoken predominantly in the Nordic countries
Oceanic languages
Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Polynesian languages
Language family
Quechuan languages
Language family of the Andes in South America
Romance languages
Languages derived from Vulgar Latin
Semitic languages
Branch of the Afroasiatic languages
Sign language
Language that uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning
Sino-Tibetan languages
Language family native to Asia
Slavic languages
Subfamily of Indo-European languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Southeast Papuan languages
Tungusic languages
Language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria
Turkic languages
Language family
Uralic languages
Language family prevalent in northern Eurasia
Uto-Aztecan languages
North American language family