Language families

Language families

• Altaic

• Uralic

• Turkicgroup

• Finno-Ugric: Finish, Hungarian, Lappish,

• Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Iran,

languages of Arctic Siberia

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova,

• Samoyedic: languages of northern Siberia

Russian Federation, Turkey, Turkmenistan,

• Caucasian: Georgian, Kabardian, Avar, Chechen

Ukrainę, Uzbekistan

• Paleosiberian/Paleo-Asiatic: 4 groups of

• Mongolie

languages used by natives of eastern Siberia • Eskimo-Aleuto: Eskimo

Language families

Language families

• Dravidan

• North American Indian languages: originally

• India, Nepal, Pakistan: Tamil, Telugu,

about 300 languages in over 50 families;

languages of south eastern India

Eskimo, Navaho, Cree

• Mon-Khmer: Khmer

•    Penutian group: Indian languages of the Southern USA, Mexico, Central America

•    South American Indian languages: 2000 languages in morę than 100 families

Indo-European Family

Italie

•    437 languages

•    6%

• Parent language -> Proto-Indo-European

•    Umbrian, Venetian, and other extinct languages used in antiquity in the northern parts of Italy

•    Romance: Latin (both classical and vulgar); Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Rhaetian (in Switzerland), Sardinian, Provencal (Southern France), Catalan (north-east Spain), Dalmatian (coast of Yugoslavia)