The world's major language families matched with example languages and their region of origin, from an intro linguistics course.
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- What language family does English belong to?
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Indo-European (specifically Germanic branch)- What language family does Mandarin Chinese belong to?
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Sino-Tibetan- What language family does Standard Arabic belong to?
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Afro-Asiatic- What language family does Swahili belong to?
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Niger-Congo- What language family does Indonesian belong to?
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Austronesian- What language family does Tamil belong to?
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Dravidian- What language family does Finnish belong to?
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Finno-Ugric (part of Uralic)- Name the three major branches of the Indo-European family.
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Germanic, Romance, and Slavic (among others like Indo-Aryan)- What language family includes Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese?
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Indo-European, Romance branch- What language family includes Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian?
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Indo-European, Slavic branch- What language family does Hindi belong to?
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Indo-European, Indo-Aryan branch- What language family does Spanish belong to?
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Indo-European, Romance branch- What language family does Russian belong to?
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Indo-European, Slavic branch- What language family does French belong to?
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Indo-European, Romance branch- What language family does German belong to?
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Indo-European, Germanic branch
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