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9742123474Indo-European number of Native Speakers and Languages2 billion and 4300
9742135595Romance Group (Latin Based)Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish1
9742149560GermanicEnglish, Dutch, German, Flemish, Norwegian, Swedish (indo-european)2
9742152053SlavicRussian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian (indo-european)3
9742162922Indo-AryanHindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi (indo-european)4
9742174789Indo-IranianFarsi (Persian) (indo-european)5
9742176760CelticWelsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish (mostly extinct) (indo-european)6
9742180564Greek(indo-european)7
9742194220Sino-Tibetan: Number of speakers, number of languages, spatial extent1.2 Billion, 400, East Asia, SE Asia8
9742204891Sino-Tibetan languagesmandarin (most spoken native language in the world), Cantonese, Wu, Burmese9
9742217009Niger-Congo number of: native speakers, languages, spatial extent360 million, 1500, Sub-Saharan Africa10
9742224703BantuSwahili (Niger-Congo)11
9742237118Afro-Asiatic number of: native speakers, languages, spatial extent350 million, 350, North Africa and SW Asia keeping in mind the diffusion of Islam12
9742246170Arabic(Afro-Asiatic)13
9742255323Austronesian number of: native speaker, languages, extent310 million, 1300, Oceana14
9742260651Austronesian languagesTagalog, Javanese, Malay (Indonesian)15
9742269191Austro-Asiatic number of native speakers, languages, and spatial extent120 million, 120, SE Asia (Vietnam and Cambodia)16
9742277161Austro-AsiaticVietnamese17
9742281410Altaic Number of: native speakers, languages, and spatial extent450 million, 100,18
9742301192AtlaicTurkey, Central Asia, Mongolia, Japan AND Korea is considered an independent language19
9742309655Uralic number of: speakers, languages, and spatial extent30 million, 40, AND Hungary, Finland, Estonia20
9742319671UralicHungarian, Finnish, Estonian21
9742328378Amerindian: native speaker, language number, spatial extentunknown, unknown South America- Andes, Amazon North America- Native American Reservations, Alaska, Northern Canada22
9742341027AmerindianQuechua-language of the Inca in present day Peru23

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