Language Families

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Language Families
Prof. Marc Cooper
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How are these columns related?
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And these?
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Romance languages (simplified)
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Romance languages (complex)
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Romance languages today
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More relationships
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Indo-European
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Old World Language Families

• Khoisan S. Africa (Hottentots)
• Niger-Kordofanian C. Africa (Bantu)
• Nilo-Saharan C. Africa (Maasai)
• Afro-Asiatic N. Africa/SW Asia (Arabic)
• Indo-European Europe/India (Hindi)
• Caucasian Asia (Chechenian)
• Dravidian India (Tamil)
• Uralic-Yukaghir N. Asia (Finnish)
• Altaic N. Asia (Japanese)
• Sino-Tibetan E. Asia (Chinese)

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New World Language Families

• Na-Dene N. America (Navaho)
• Eskimo-Aleut NW N. America (Inuit)
• Amerind Americas (Nahuatl, Dakota, Inca, Carib)
• Oceania
• Austric SE Asia, Pacific (Hawaiian, Mung)

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Indo-European Family
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Afro-Asiatic Family
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Sino-Tibetan Family
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Spread of Indo-European