Language families of the world

A language family is a group of languages that descend from a common ancestor. This map includes 211 named families and 103 isolates, which have no known relatives. 148 families have at least three languages and their own page, listed here with the biggest first.

1. Atlantic-Congo languages map (1,367 languages)
2. Austronesian languages map (1,226 languages)
3. Sino-Tibetan languages map (496 languages)
4. Indo-European languages map (485 languages)
5. Afro-Asiatic languages map (332 languages)
6. Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages map (315 languages)
7. Otomanguean languages map (175 languages)
8. Austroasiatic languages map (154 languages)
9. Tai-Kadai languages map (91 languages)
10. Pama-Nyungan languages map (80 languages)
11. Dravidian languages map (76 languages)
12. Mande languages map (73 languages)
13. Central Sudanic languages map (60 languages)
14. Nilotic languages map (55 languages)
15. Nuclear Torricelli languages map (55 languages)
16. Uto-Aztecan languages map (53 languages)
17. Tupian languages map (51 languages)
18. Arawakan languages map (45 languages)
19. Hmong-Mien languages map (43 languages)
20. Quechuan languages map (42 languages)
21. Uralic languages map (41 languages)
22. Turkic languages map (39 languages)
23. Kru languages map (38 languages)
24. Sepik languages map (36 languages)
25. Nakh-Daghestanian languages map (35 languages)
26. Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages map (31 languages)
27. Mayan languages map (31 languages)
28. Algic languages map (30 languages)
29. Pano-Tacanan languages map (25 languages)
30. Cariban languages map (24 languages)
31. Ramu languages map (24 languages)
32. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages map (22 languages)
33. Dogon languages map (20 languages)
34. Chibchan languages map (19 languages)
35. Lakes Plain languages map (19 languages)
36. Ta-Ne-Omotic languages map (19 languages)
37. Tucanoan languages map (19 languages)
38. Mixe-Zoque languages map (18 languages)
39. Yam languages map (18 languages)
40. Anim languages map (16 languages)
41. Japonic languages map (16 languages)
42. Nuclear-Macro-Je languages map (16 languages)
43. Border languages map (15 languages)
44. North Halmahera languages map (15 languages)
45. Mongolic-Khitan languages map (14 languages)
46. Angan languages map (13 languages)
47. Ndu languages map (13 languages)
48. Tor-Orya languages map (13 languages)
49. Totonacan languages map (13 languages)
50. Tungusic languages map (13 languages)
51. Khoe-Kwadi languages map (12 languages)
52. Salishan languages map (12 languages)
53. Eskimo-Aleut languages map (11 languages)
54. Heibanic languages map (11 languages)
55. Sko languages map (11 languages)
56. Surmic languages map (11 languages)
57. Geelvink Bay languages map (10 languages)
58. Ijoid languages map (10 languages)
59. Nubian languages map (10 languages)
60. Songhay languages map (10 languages)
61. South Bougainville languages map (10 languages)
62. Cochimi-Yuman languages map (9 languages)
63. Dagan languages map (9 languages)
64. Maban languages map (9 languages)
65. Greater Kwerba languages map (8 languages)
66. Koiarian languages map (8 languages)
67. Saharan languages map (8 languages)
68. Siouan languages map (8 languages)
69. South Bird's Head languages map (8 languages)
70. Bosavi languages map (7 languages)
71. Chocoan languages map (7 languages)
72. Gunwinyguan languages map (7 languages)
73. Mataguayan languages map (7 languages)
74. Narrow Talodi languages map (7 languages)
75. Western Daly languages map (7 languages)
76. Dajuic languages map (6 languages)
77. East Strickland languages map (6 languages)
78. Iroquoian languages map (6 languages)
79. Kadugli-Krongo languages map (6 languages)
80. Kiowa-Tanoan languages map (6 languages)
81. Kiwaian languages map (6 languages)
82. Left May languages map (6 languages)
83. Lengua-Mascoy languages map (6 languages)
84. Lower Sepik languages map (6 languages)
85. Mailuan languages map (6 languages)
86. Muskogean languages map (6 languages)
87. Nambiquaran languages map (6 languages)
88. Yanomamic languages map (6 languages)
89. Arafundi languages map (5 languages)
90. Arawan languages map (5 languages)
91. Baining languages map (5 languages)
92. Eleman languages map (5 languages)
93. Guahiboan languages map (5 languages)
94. Keram languages map (5 languages)
95. Koman languages map (5 languages)
96. Kxa languages map (5 languages)
97. Nimboranic languages map (5 languages)
98. Pauwasi languages map (5 languages)
99. Sahaptian languages map (5 languages)
100. South Omotic languages map (5 languages)
101. Wakashan languages map (5 languages)
102. West Bird's Head languages map (5 languages)
103. Yareban languages map (5 languages)
104. Yuat languages map (5 languages)
105. Abkhaz-Adyge languages map (4 languages)
106. Aymaran languages map (4 languages)
107. Barbacoan languages map (4 languages)
108. Blue Nile Mao languages map (4 languages)
109. Chapacuran languages map (4 languages)
110. Chicham languages map (4 languages)
111. Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages map (4 languages)
112. Eastern Jebel languages map (4 languages)
113. Eastern Trans-Fly languages map (4 languages)
114. Guaicuruan languages map (4 languages)
115. Huavean languages map (4 languages)
116. Huitotoan languages map (4 languages)
117. Kartvelian languages map (4 languages)
118. Kunimaipan languages map (4 languages)
119. Maningrida languages map (4 languages)
120. Naduhup languages map (4 languages)
121. North Bougainville languages map (4 languages)
122. Sentanic languages map (4 languages)
123. Suki-Gogodala languages map (4 languages)
124. Tamaic languages map (4 languages)
125. Turama-Kikori languages map (4 languages)
126. Walioic languages map (4 languages)
127. Bulaka River languages map (3 languages)
128. Caddoan languages map (3 languages)
129. Dizoid languages map (3 languages)
130. East Bird's Head languages map (3 languages)
131. Gumuz languages map (3 languages)
132. Iwaidjan Proper languages map (3 languages)
133. Kamula-Elevala languages map (3 languages)
134. Katla-Tima languages map (3 languages)
135. Kayagaric languages map (3 languages)
136. Kolopom languages map (3 languages)
137. Kresh-Aja languages map (3 languages)
138. Kuliak languages map (3 languages)
139. Lepki-Murkim-Kembra languages map (3 languages)
140. Mairasic languages map (3 languages)
141. Mangarrayi-Maran languages map (3 languages)
142. Mirndi languages map (3 languages)
143. Misumalpan languages map (3 languages)
144. Saliban languages map (3 languages)
145. Tsimshian languages map (3 languages)
146. Tuu languages map (3 languages)
147. West Bomberai languages map (3 languages)
148. Zaparoan languages map (3 languages)

A to Z

• Abkhaz-Adyge
• Afro-Asiatic
• Algic
• Angan
• Anim
• Arafundi
• Arawakan
• Arawan
• Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
• Atlantic-Congo
• Austroasiatic
• Austronesian
• Aymaran
• Baining
• Barbacoan
• Blue Nile Mao
• Border
• Bosavi
• Bulaka River
• Caddoan
• Cariban
• Central Sudanic
• Chapacuran
• Chibchan
• Chicham
• Chocoan
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan
• Cochimi-Yuman
• Dagan
• Dajuic
• Dizoid
• Dogon
• Dravidian
• East Bird's Head
• East Strickland
• Eastern Jebel
• Eastern Trans-Fly
• Eleman
• Eskimo-Aleut
• Geelvink Bay
• Greater Kwerba
• Guahiboan
• Guaicuruan
• Gumuz
• Gunwinyguan
• Heibanic
• Hmong-Mien
• Huavean
• Huitotoan
• Ijoid
• Indo-European
• Iroquoian
• Iwaidjan Proper
• Japonic
• Kadugli-Krongo
• Kamula-Elevala
• Kartvelian
• Katla-Tima
• Kayagaric
• Keram
• Khoe-Kwadi
• Kiowa-Tanoan
• Kiwaian
• Koiarian
• Kolopom
• Koman
• Kresh-Aja
• Kru
• Kuliak
• Kunimaipan
• Kxa
• Lakes Plain
• Left May
• Lengua-Mascoy
• Lepki-Murkim-Kembra
• Lower Sepik
• Maban
• Mailuan
• Mairasic
• Mande
• Mangarrayi-Maran
• Maningrida
• Mataguayan
• Mayan
• Mirndi
• Misumalpan
• Mixe-Zoque
• Mongolic-Khitan
• Muskogean
• Naduhup
• Nakh-Daghestanian
• Nambiquaran
• Narrow Talodi
• Ndu
• Nilotic
• Nimboranic
• North Bougainville
• North Halmahera
• Nubian
• Nuclear Torricelli
• Nuclear Trans New Guinea
• Nuclear-Macro-Je
• Otomanguean
• Pama-Nyungan
• Pano-Tacanan
• Pauwasi
• Quechuan
• Ramu
• Sahaptian
• Saharan
• Saliban
• Salishan
• Sentanic
• Sepik
• Sino-Tibetan
• Siouan
• Sko
• Songhay
• South Bird's Head
• South Bougainville
• South Omotic
• Suki-Gogodala
• Surmic
• Ta-Ne-Omotic
• Tai-Kadai
• Tamaic
• Timor-Alor-Pantar
• Tor-Orya
• Totonacan
• Tsimshian
• Tucanoan
• Tungusic
• Tupian
• Turama-Kikori
• Turkic
• Tuu
• Uralic
• Uto-Aztecan
• Wakashan
• Walioic
• West Bird's Head
• West Bomberai
• Western Daly
• Yam
• Yanomamic
• Yareban
• Yuat
• Zaparoan