Get To Know The Origin Of Your Languages
Austronesian / Malay-Polynesian (EXAMPLE: Malay)
The region that houses these speakers is from Champa, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java Island, Borneo, Philippines, Madagascar, to Hawaii and Cook Island. Known as the Malay-Polynesian family before switching to Austronesian when it was discovered that native Taiwanese Formosa was also included in this group. To date, this group has 400 MILLION speakers.
Sino-Tibetian (EXAMPLE: China, Burma, Tibet)
The very broad Chinese speakers of the language family were placed into the Sino-Tibetan family. Where in this family, Tibetan and Burmese speakers are also placed under the Sino-Tibetan family. On the Tai Kadai speakers, it is placed under the language family which is still a debate. However, Tai Kadai people insist that their language has formed their own language family from Sino Tibetian.
Dravidian (Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Malayalam)
This Dravidian language speaker is its territory mostly located in SOUTH SOUTH INDIA. They are believed to be the founders of the Indus Valley Civilization before the fall of the Indus Valley (still debated). According to this hypothesis, they originally lived in Northern India before the Indo-Aryans came from Iran and the Middle East causing them to retreat south and south until their territory today is in South India. The Tamil people and their language in Malaysia are from the DRAVIDIAN FAMILY.
Indo-Aryan (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali)
Indo-Aryan is a family of nations occupying Northern India and Pakistan today. Among the language examples included in this category is Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali. They are different from DRAVIDIAN. Their language is closer to English, Germany than Tamil. The Indo-Aryan group is under Indo-European, a very large family that needs to be systematically divided.
Indo-European (Examples: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Latin)
In fact, Indo-Aryan is a family of languages that can be included under the Indo European family, but I deliberately distinguish it for us to distinguish the speaker in Northern India easily is different from South India, so that misconceptions can be identified. In other words, the language spoken by the Bollywood film is very different from Kollywood.
Back to Indo-European, this language is the most spoken language. In Indo European families, there are many sub-families of their own.
English is included under the Germanic sub-family. The French are placed under the Italic sub-family, and many Indo-European languages around Europe have the same vocabulary. For example, English and French, though these two languages are in different sub-divisions.
Semitic (Example: Jewish, Arabic)
The anti-Semitic word that is often pronounced on Jewish feelings is more accurately referring to the ancient Ancient family believed to have existed thousands of years ago, as early as the beginning of the civilizations of Mesopotamia, about 3000-2500 BC. Today, the Semitic family is Arabic with over 300 million speakers, Hebrew or Hebrew with 5 million speakers in the world.
Altaic (Example: Turkish and Mongol)
The most controversial language family. Originally, Japanese and Korean languages wanted to be included in this language family, but it was arguable that the language system of the two languages was very different from Altaic. Among other races put into this family are Turkey and Mongols. These two languages then form their more exclusive families of Turkic and Mongolic.
Japonic Language (Example: Japanese)
Although there is an attempt to place Japanese into Atlantic Language, this language has succeeded in establishing its own family. Japonic Language includes Japanese language and Ryukyu language.
Niger-Congo (Example: Swahili and Zulu)
In fact, the native language of Afrikaans includes many languages. However, I will only take two language families that I think needs and should be known to all of us.
Niger Congo is a language family that almost empowers the entire African continent itself
Isolated Language (Korean)
Isolated Language is a separate language of any language family in the world. Most of these languages are languages spoken by groups of people who are occupied in the interior, or who are extinct except KOREA.
Korean is known as Isolated Language despite attempts to include it in Atlantic. Korean speakers are more than the sum of all the Isolated Language in the world combined.
PS: There are many other family languages in the world. However, I only include some parts, because these languages above are dominating the world today.
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