“LANGUAGE

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FAMILIES”
What is a language family?
Most languages belong to language families.
A language family is a group of related langu
ages that developed from a common historic
ancestor, referred to as proto-language.

A language family is a set of languages derivi

ng from a common ancestor or "parent." Lan
guages with a significant number of common
features in phonology, morphology, and synt
ax are said to belong to the same language fa
mily.
According to Ethnologue (16th editi
on), there are 147 language families
in the world and t
The six largest language families by la
nguage count are:
Largest Language Families By Numb
er of Speakers
The Indo-European language family
is the largest in the world.It is consi
sts of 437 daughter languages and
has an estimated 2.910
English is the largest language in
the world, if you count both nativ
e and non-native speakers. If you
count only native speakers, Mand
arin Chinese is the largest.
Thank you!
Instructor:
—— Mr. Nicolas Sasaluya
Reporters: Trajada, Monica S.
Sesgundo Mark Noel Jordan