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    The document discusses several major language families around the world including: - Indo-European, which includes English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hindi and is the most widespread family. - Sino-Tibetan, which includes Mandarin and Cantonese spoken by most people in China. - Niger-Congo, which is the largest family by number of living languages and includes Swahili widely spoken in Africa. - Afro-Asiatic, which includes Arabic and is composed of Semitic and Hamitic branches. - Austronesian, which covers Pacific islands and includes Malay and Filipino. It also briefly mentions Altaic

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    The document discusses several major language families around the world including: - Indo-European, which includes English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hindi and is the most widespread family. - Sino-Tibetan, which includes Mandarin and Cantonese spoken by most people in China. - Niger-Congo, which is the largest family by number of living languages and includes Swahili widely spoken in Africa. - Afro-Asiatic, which includes Arabic and is composed of Semitic and Hamitic branches. - Austronesian, which covers Pacific islands and includes Malay and Filipino. It also briefly mentions Altaic

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    The document discusses several major language families around the world including: - Indo-European, which includes English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hindi and is the most widespread family. - Sino-Tibetan, which includes Mandarin and Cantonese spoken by most people in China. - Niger-Congo, which is the largest family by number of living languages and includes Swahili widely spoken in Africa. - Afro-Asiatic, which includes Arabic and is composed of Semitic and Hamitic branches. - Austronesian, which covers Pacific islands and includes Malay and Filipino. It also briefly mentions Altaic

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    The document discusses several major language families around the world including: - Indo-European, which includes English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hindi and is the most widespread family. - Sino-Tibetan, which includes Mandarin and Cantonese spoken by most people in China. - Niger-Congo, which is the largest family by number of living languages and includes Swahili widely spoken in Africa. - Afro-Asiatic, which includes Arabic and is composed of Semitic and Hamitic branches. - Austronesian, which covers Pacific islands and includes Malay and Filipino. It also briefly mentions Altaic

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    Indo-European

    living language: 436


    percentage: 46.77
    -largest family based on number of users
    this includes English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hindi
    the most widespread and widespread language in the world which is also the main
    language in the countries of the European continent, North and South America,
    Australia, and in parts of Southwest Asia, India and Russia

    Sino-Tibetan
    living language: 456
    percentage: 20.34
    it includes of
    Burmese
    Chinese
    - Mandarin
    - Cantonese
    Most people in the world speak Han Chinese (Mandarin) which belongs to this family
    it is widespread in the country of China and in parts of the Southeast
    The family also includes Burmese and Tibetan

    Niger-Congo
    living language: 1524
    percentage: 6.91
    largest family based on number of living languages
    among these is the Swahili language
    this language is widespread from South of the Sahara to the tip of Africa
    most widely spoken language in Africa

    Afro-Asiatic
    living language: 366
    percentage of speakers: 5.81
    among them is Arabic
    official language among the Arabs
    composed of two Branches: the Semitic and the Hamitic ---
    -Semitic
    the language of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula, from the Tigris-Euphrates
    valley to Syria and north America
    examples of this are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew and Syriac
    -Hamitic
    language in parts of Morocco, Algeria and the Sahara
    these include Berber, Taured and Cushite

    Austronesian
    living language: 1221
    percentage: 5.55
    among them are Malay and Filipino
    This language family covers the Pacific islands such as the Philippines, Indonesia,
    and Malaysia
    The language is now included in New Zealand, and from Southeast Asia to Madagascar

    Language facts you should remember


    1. Language is considered as the soul of a culture
    2. It gives identity to people who belong to a group
    3. There are 7,105 living languages in the world
    4. The language is used in the world by more than 6,200,000,000 people
    5. These languages are included in the so-called language family or languages that
    are related and have a common root
    6. It is estimated that there are 136 language families in the whole world
    Altaic
    this language is widespread in the regions of Central, North, and East Asia
    It has two branches Turkic and Mongolic

    Uralic
    in Northern Eurasia there are societies that speak this language such as Finnish,
    Hungarian, Estonian, Mansi and Mordovian

    Austroasiatic
    In this family are grouped the languages of people living in Mainland Southeast
    Asia such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Peninsula of Malaysia

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