Macrofamilies of Languages


AFRICA:
Khoisan (Hottentot)
Niger-Kordofanian [=Niger-Congo] (Mende, Igbo, Zulu, Swahili)
Nilo-Saharan (Luo, Nubian)
Afro-Asiatic [=Hamito-Semitic] {Egyptian, Cushitic, Berber, Chadic, Semitic} (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic)

AMERICAS:
Eskimo-Aleut
Na-Dene (Athapaskan, Navajo, Apache)
Amerind
          NORTH AMERICA:
          Algonquian (Cheyenne, Shawnee, Cree)
          Siouan (Crow, Winnebago, Omaha, Lakhota)
          Iroquoian (Mohawk, Cherokee)
          Caddoan (Caddo, Witchita, Pawnee)
          Wakashan
          Salish (Coeur d'Alene)
          Klamath-Sahaptin (Nez Perce, Sahaptin, Klamath)
          Penutian
          Muskogean (Choctaw)
          Hokan (Yuma, Mohave)
          Coahuiltecan
          Uto-Aztecan (Ute, Paiute, Comanche, Pima/Papago, Hopi)
          Otomian-Pame
          Mayan (Maya)
          SOUTH AMERICA:
          Andian-Equatorial (Quechua, Aymara)
          Ge-Pano-Carib (Carib)
          Macro-Chibchan

EURASIA:
Indo-European
Uralic-Yukaghir [=Uralic] {Finno-Ugric, Samoyed} (Hungarian)
Altaic {Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusic, Korean, Japanese}
Caucasian
          Kartvelian [=South Caucasian] (Georgian)
          Northwest Caucasian and Northeast Caucasian
Elamo-Dravidian [=Dravidian] (Telugu, Tamil)
Sino-Tibetan {Tibeto-Burman, Sinitic [=Chinese]}
Chukchi-Kamchatkan
Austric
          Daic (Thai)
          Austroasiatic (Vietnamese, Cambodian [=Khmer])
          Austronesian {Formosan, Malayo-Polynesian}

AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA:
Australian
Indo-Pacific

Key: Families indented [Alternatives] {Branches} (Sample Languages)


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