AP Human Language Families Flashcards
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9742123474 | Indo-European number of Native Speakers and Languages | 2 billion and 430 | 0 | |
9742135595 | Romance Group (Latin Based) | Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish | 1 | |
9742149560 | Germanic | English, Dutch, German, Flemish, Norwegian, Swedish (indo-european) | 2 | |
9742152053 | Slavic | Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian (indo-european) | 3 | |
9742162922 | Indo-Aryan | Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi (indo-european) | 4 | |
9742174789 | Indo-Iranian | Farsi (Persian) (indo-european) | 5 | |
9742176760 | Celtic | Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish (mostly extinct) (indo-european) | 6 | |
9742180564 | Greek | (indo-european) | 7 | |
9742194220 | Sino-Tibetan: Number of speakers, number of languages, spatial extent | 1.2 Billion, 400, East Asia, SE Asia | 8 | |
9742204891 | Sino-Tibetan languages | mandarin (most spoken native language in the world), Cantonese, Wu, Burmese | 9 | |
9742217009 | Niger-Congo number of: native speakers, languages, spatial extent | 360 million, 1500, Sub-Saharan Africa | 10 | |
9742224703 | Bantu | Swahili (Niger-Congo) | 11 | |
9742237118 | Afro-Asiatic number of: native speakers, languages, spatial extent | 350 million, 350, North Africa and SW Asia keeping in mind the diffusion of Islam | 12 | |
9742246170 | Arabic | (Afro-Asiatic) | 13 | |
9742255323 | Austronesian number of: native speaker, languages, extent | 310 million, 1300, Oceana | 14 | |
9742260651 | Austronesian languages | Tagalog, Javanese, Malay (Indonesian) | 15 | |
9742269191 | Austro-Asiatic number of native speakers, languages, and spatial extent | 120 million, 120, SE Asia (Vietnam and Cambodia) | 16 | |
9742277161 | Austro-Asiatic | Vietnamese | 17 | |
9742281410 | Altaic Number of: native speakers, languages, and spatial extent | 450 million, 100, | 18 | |
9742301192 | Atlaic | Turkey, Central Asia, Mongolia, Japan AND Korea is considered an independent language | 19 | |
9742309655 | Uralic number of: speakers, languages, and spatial extent | 30 million, 40, AND Hungary, Finland, Estonia | 20 | |
9742319671 | Uralic | Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian | 21 | |
9742328378 | Amerindian: native speaker, language number, spatial extent | unknown, unknown South America- Andes, Amazon North America- Native American Reservations, Alaska, Northern Canada | 22 | |
9742341027 | Amerindian | Quechua-language of the Inca in present day Peru | 23 |