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Language families
A language family is a grouping of linguistically linked languages, stemming from a common ancestral mother-language called Protolanguage.
Most languages in the world belong to a specific family. Languages that have no demonstrable relation with others, and cannot be classified within a specific family, are generally known as language isolates.
Creole languages are the only ones to be neither isolates, nor members of a linguistic family. They form their own different type of languages.
You will find access below to factsheets for some 120 language families that we have identified, and hundreds of languages of these families.
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