What are the major language families? Extinct families and unclassified languages. The creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, put the illustration together to show why some of the characters in her comic were able to understand each other despite speaking different languages. Most languages belong to language families.
The two most spoken languages are in these families – English is classified as Indo-European, and Mandarin Chinese is classified as Sino-Tibetan. Simons, and Charles D. The whole image is dotted with languages, with bigger leaves representing those with the most native speakers. I’ve relabelled some popular languages) The numbers on the tree below are in millions of native speakers.
Family trees The family tree in FIG. China, for reasons we shall not discuss here) shows the genea-logical relationship between some mammals. Most of us are accustomed to reading such. A language family is a set of languages deriving from a common ancestor or parent.
Subdivisions of a language family are called branches. The six largest language families by language count are Niger-Congo, Austronesian, Trans-New Guinea, Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European, and Afro-Asiatic. Before speaking of a language family tree , it might be useful to introduce the concepts of familiarity and kinship in languages. There is a genealogical classification for languages used as a criteria to understand their kinship an as a result, to include them in a particular linguistic family. At least 1languages families have been identified throughout the worl each of them belonging to a different linguistic family.
Follow each language ’s path from bush to roots and discover how closely languages are related to each other. Indo-European languages and Sino-Tibetan languages are the two largest families in the world. Well known languages include Quechua (Inca), Guarani, and Carib. The Andean language sub- family (which includes Quechua) numbers nearly nine million speakers!
A common mistake done by many Westerners. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish,. Language trees for the language lovers! Strictly speaking, this is the linguistic equivalent of a family tree.
The languages in such a family are similar in their vocabulary or structure. The Celtic branch is a mess too. This grouping, however, is still controversial. Similar to biological families , the substantiation of relationship is discernible through shared characteristics.
In a likewise manner, the languages of India may be aggrouped by major language families. This activity is used for practicing family vocabulary. Students use the apples to write their family members (mom, da brother, sister,etc.) and draw pictures of them.
It is both in English and Spanish. They color and cut the tree and apples and paste the apples to the tree.
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