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A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
Der Begriff Sprachfamilie bezeichnet eine Gesamtheit verschiedener Sprachen, die aufgrund ihrer gemeinsamen Herkunft zusammengefasst werden. Das bedeutet, dass eine Sprachfamilie eine genetische Einheit bildet, insofern sie von einer gemeinsamen Vorgängersprache ( Ursprache/Protosprache/Grundsprache, Gemeinsprache) abstammt.
Über 99,5 % der Menschheit sprechen eine Sprache, die zu einer dieser 25 sprecherreichsten Spracheinheiten gehört. Insgesamt existieren heute weltweit etwa 200 Sprachfamilien bzw. isolierte Sprachen, weitere 100 ausgestorbene Einheiten sind bekannt.
The language family of the world that has the most speakers is the Indo-European languages, spoken by 46% of the world's population. This family includes major world languages like English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu).
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
Language families are groups of languages that are related to each other because they come from a common older language. The languages in such a family are similar in their vocabulary or structure. For example, French and Spanish both come from Latin.
