APHG Language Families
Sino-Tibetan Language Family
2nd largest language family, includes Mandarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese
Germanic Branch
A language branch of the Indo-European Language Family. The Northern group includes Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic), while the West group includes German, English, Dutch, Flemish
Romance Branch
A language branch of the Indo-European Language Family. This branch includes languages that evolved from Latin. The 5 main languages include: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian.
Celtic Branch
A language branch of the Indo-European Language Family. This branch includes the languages of the British Isles before the invasion of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. This branch includes Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish.
Japanese
Both a language and a family. It cannot be conclusively link to another language.
Altaic Language Family
A language family spoken across central Asia named after the Altai Mountains. The most spoken language in this family is Turkish. The family also includes the languages spoken in the Caucasus Region and across Central Asia, previously controlled by the Soviet Union.
Uralic Language Family
Language Family in Europe that includes the languages of Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian. Languages in this family originated from the Ural mountains in Russia, spreading through migration.
Austronesian Language Family
Language Family spoken mostly in Indonesia. This family includes the languages of Javanese, Indonesian, Malay, and Malagasy. The most spoken language in this family is Javanese, since Java is the populous island of Indonesia. The Indonesian language is used as a lingua franca in Indonesia, due to so many different native languages (739 active languages). Malay is spoken in Malaysia, Malagasy is spoken in Madagascar.
Indo European language family
Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. Includes the Germanic branch, Indo-Iranian branch, Balto-Slavic branch, and Romance branch.
Niger-Congo Language Family
More than 95% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa speak languages from this family. This family includes Swahili, the lingua franca in Africa, used by many to communicate as a second language, due to so many different native languages.
Indo-Iranian Branch
The branch of the Indo-European language family with the most speakers. This branch includes more than 100 individual languages divided into an eastern group (Indic), which includes the languages of Hindi and Urdu and a western group (Iranian), which includes Farsi and Kurdish.
Balto-Slavic Branch
This branch of the Indo-European language family can be broken down into four groups: East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, and Slovak), and South Slavic (Serbo-Croatian). Russian is the most widely used language in this branch, due to the spread of the Soviet Union.
Afro-Asiatic Language Family
This language family is found in northern Africa and southwestern Asia (Middle East), where Islam is the dominant religion. This family includes the languages of Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew is spoken in Israel, a Jewish state, and Arabic is spoken throughout the region since it is the language of the Koran, the Islamic holy book.
