Language is the method of communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structure and conventional way. In another way, we can say language is a system of signs for encoding and decoding information. These languages belong to certain language families because they possess have the same origins. There are approximately 6000 languages spoken worldwide out of these 94 languages belongs to different language families. Here, we are giving the list of language families spoken worldwide for general awareness.
Source: www.freelang.net
List of language families spoken worldwide
| Language Family | Language |
| Indo-European family | English, Russian and Hindi |
| Sino-Tibetan family | Mandarin, Bodo and the other Chinese languages, and Tibetan |
| Afro-Asiatic family | Arabic, Somali, Hebrew, Swahili, and Zulu |
| Malayo-Polynesian languages family | Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, and hundreds of other languages spoken throughout the Pacific |
| Dravidian family | Tamil and Telugu |
| Austronesian | Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, and Filipino (Tagalog) |
| Altaic | Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean and Japonic |
| Austro-Asiatic | Khmeric, Bahnaric, Monic , Katuic, Pearic, Khmuic, Palaung-Wa, Khasic, Vietic, Aslian, Nicobarese, Kherwarian, Korku, Kharia-Juang and Koraput |
| Tai-Kadai | Hlai, Kra, Kam–Sui, Tai, and the Ong Be |
| Niger-Congo | Yoruba, Igbo, Fula and Shona |
The evolution of human languages witnesses the gradual changes that involve the origin and divergence of languages and language families which can be considered analogous to biological evolution but it is not necessarily occur through the same mechanisms. Apart from all the language families, Indo-European languages are the most widely spoken that constitutes 44 % of the world population. In the above list of language families spoken worldwide will enhance the general knowledge of the readers.
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