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The important language groups of the World

• 1 Akkadian and Assyro-Babilonian Ashur
• 2 Aramaic and Arabic Aram"
• 3 Southern Semitic
• 4 Egyptian
• 5 Berber
• 6 Chadic
• 7 Cushitic

==== Indo-European Languages

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• 8 Anatolian?
• 9 Germanic (centum)
• 10 Celtic (centum)
• 11 Italic (centum)
• 12 Greek
• 13 Armenian
• 14 Indo-Iranian

       Iranian
       Indo-Aryan 

• 15 Balkan (Albanian, Dacian, Phrygian, Thracian)
• 16 Balto-Slavic

       Slavic  
       Baltic

• 17 Tocharian

• 18 Uralic

       Finno-Permic
       Ugric  
       Samoyedic

• 20 Dravidian

• 21 Turkic
• 22 Mongolic
• 23 Tungusic
• 23 Korean-Japonic

       Japonic            
           Japanese
           Ryukyuan
       Korean             

• 24 Kartvelian (South Caucasian)

• 25 NorthEast Caucasian ( J1 ? )

• 26 NorthWest Caucasian

Paleo-Siberian languages

• 27 Nivkh (Gilyak)
• ? Chukchi-Kamchatkan

• 19 Yukaghir

• 56 Eskimo-Aleut (in America)

Sino-Tibetan

• 28 Chinese
• 29 Tibeto-Burman (including Karen languages)

Austric

• 30 Austro-Asiatic

       Nuclear Mon-Khmer
       Khasi-Khmuic
       Munda

• 31 Austronesian

       Formosan (in Taiwan)
       Malayo-Polynesian  
       Borneo  (in Philippines)
       Sunda-Sulawesi  (including Chamorro)
       Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

• 32 Kradai (Tai–Kadai) (affinities to Austronesian and Sino-Tibetan) ( Haplogroup D? )

       Hlai
       Kra
       Kam-Sui (in China)
       Ong-Be  (in China)
       Tai (Daic)

• 33 Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) ( Haplogroup D? )

• 34 Ainu ( Haplogroup D? )

Indo-Pacific

• 35 Andamanese (Andaman Islands) [Haplogroup D?]

Papuan

• 36 Trans–New Guinea (TNG) [Indo-Pacific]

• 37 Border (Tami)
• 38 Extended West Papuan

       West Papuan
       Yawa
       East Bird's Head-Sentani

• 39 South-Central Papuan languages $

• 40 Lakes Plain

• 41 Ramu–Lower Sepik (including Mairasi) $
• 42 Nimboran
• 43 Eastern Trans-Fly languages
• 44 Tor-Kwerba

• 45 Tasmanian (in Australia) Indo-Pacific

• 46 Indigenous Australian languages

   Macro–Pama-Nyungan
       Gunwinyguan
       Greater Pama-Nyungan (includung proper Pama-Nyungan)
       Ngumbur (isolate?)
       West Barkly, probably also Macro–Pama-Nyungan

       Yirram - Indigenous Australian isolate, suggested to be related to West Barkly
       Tiwi language isolate (may be related to Gunwinyguan) 

• Amhem Family

       Burarran
       Iwaidjan
       Giimbiyu
       Gaagudju
       Umbugarla

 (Is there "North-Australian Group ? " ??? )

       Nyulnyulan languages
       Bunuban languages 
       Worrorran languages
       Jarrakan languages 
       Daly languages
       Limilngan languages
       Laragiya language isolate

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• 57 Dene-Yenisean

       Na-Dene     (in America)
       Yeniseian   (including Ket)

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• 58 Nilo-Saharan {Africa}

• 59 Niger-Congo {Africa}

• 60 Khoisan {Africa}

• 61 Hadza {Africa} [isolate]

• 62 Sandawe {Africa} [isolate]

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Amerind languages

• 63 Northern Amerind

       Almosan and Keresiouan 
       Penutian and Hokan     

• 64 Central Amerind

       Aztec-Tanoan
       Oto-Manguean

• 65 Southern Amerind

       Andean, Chibchan and Paezan 
       Misumalpan ? 
       Equatorial and Tucanoan
       Macro (Carib, Panoan and Ge)

Language Isolates

West Asia

• 1 Sumerian J1

• 2 Elamite language "Elam" J*

Europe

• 3 Basque

• 4 Iberian  ?

• 5 Etruscan (may be related to other Tyrsenian languages: Raetic, Lemnian)

Central and South Asia

• 6 Burushaski

• 7 Gilyak

• 8 Kusunda (in Nepal) "relic"

       (suggeted affinities: Tibeto-Burman, Munda, Yeniseian, Burushaski, "Sino-Caucasian", Nihali )

• 9 Vedda "relic" (in Sri Lanka)