Language Families Summary Sheet

Language Family        Representative languages                                                           

Indo-European
Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Lithuanian,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Urdu

Afro-Asiatic
Arabic, Hebrew

Sino-Tibetan
Chinese

Uralic
Finnish

Malayo-Polynesian
Indonesian

Dravidian
Malayalam, Telugu

Uto-Aztecan
Nahuatl

Athapascan
Navajo

Andean-Equatorial
Quechua

Niger-Congo
Swahili

Altaic
Turkish

Independent
Japanese