The Book of Languages: Talk Your Way around the World

The Book of Languages: Talk Your Way around the World — page 7 — Language families Like people languages belong to different families Languages in the same family have connections with each other They share a common ancestor and may have similar features Th e map below shows you where the main language families are spoken Afro-Asiatic Altaic Austro-Asiatic Austronesian Dravidian Niger-Congo Sino-Tibetan Tai Kadai Uralic Indo-European Japonic A language family tree Th e larger language families have their own family trees which are split into smaller groups of languages called branches Here you can see how one of these language families Indo-European breaks off into diff erent languages How many of these have you heard of 1010

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