Finno-Ugric languages (23173 bytes)
1: ...green). Also shown are the Samoyedic and Yukaghir languages (after Ruhlen, 1987)]]
2: ...alic as synonyms. Many of the smaller Finno-Ugric languages are endangered and near extinction.
5: ...og]]). Proto-Finno-Ugric contains [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] loanwords, notably the words for "...
7: ...culture which appears to have corresponded to the Finno-Ugric populations, ca [[4200 BC]]- ca [[2000 BC]].
9: ...uages|Balto-Slavic]] and moved closer to [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] during its protohistoric development.)

Proto-Finno-Ugric (917 bytes)
1: .... It has been suggested that the area where Proto-Finno-Ugric was spoken reached between the [[Baltic Sea]] and...
3: According to Robert Austerlitz, Proto-Finno-Ugric had about seven cases; [[nominative case|nominati...
8: [[Category:Proto-languages]]
9: [[Category:Proposed languages]]

Ugric languages (542 bytes)
1: ...re generally held to be a branch of [[Finno-Ugric languages]].
3: They include three languages: [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], and the Ob-Ugr...
5: For further information, see [[Finno-Ugric languages]].

Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages (1969 bytes)
1: '''Subclass PB: Modern languages. Celtic languages''' is a classification used by the [[Library of C...
9: <td colspan="4">Modern languages; [[Celtic language]]s</td>

Little languages (259 bytes)
1: ...named by [[Jon Bentley]]. Some examples of little languages are tbl and grap for the [[troff]] environment.

Bété languages (654 bytes)
1: The '''B&eacute;t&eacute; languages''' are spoken in south-eastern [[Côte d'Ivoire]]....
11: They belong to the [[Kru languages|Kru language]] family.
14: ...bid=2869 Ethnologue listing of B&eacute;t&eacute; Languages]
17: [[Category:Kru languages]]
18: [[Category:Languages of Côte d'Ivoire]]

Algic languages (814 bytes)
1: The '''Algic languages''' are an [[indigenous]] [[language family]] of [...
3: Most Algic languages are part of the [[Algonquian]] subfamily, which w...
5: ...r Algic languages are the [[Yurok]] and [[Wiyot]] languages of northwestern [[California]]. The last known W...
7: ===Algic languages===
8: * [[Algonquian languages]]

Ryukyuan languages (3813 bytes)
1: ...sus among Ryukyuanists that there are 6 different languages.
10: ...nd as a native language, while the other Ryukyuan languages, although they are losing ground, are slipping on...
12: ..., [[Palauan language|Palauan]], and other various languages were considered dialects of [[Japanese language|J...
14: ...s]], nobody would question the status of Ryukyuan languages as [[independent]] from Japanese.
16: ...lly similar to [[Tokyo]] Japanese. Other Ryukyuan languages such as Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are even fu...

Hokan languages (2334 bytes)
1: ... [[North America]] by [[Native American]]s. Hokan languages were mostly spoken in what is now [[California]],...
3: ...stal groups. Some linguists include the [[Chumash languages]] here; others classify them in a separate family...
5: Most Hokan languages are now extinct.
7: ===Hokan languages (28)===
8: * Esselen-Yuman languages (10)

Carib languages (1234 bytes)
1: ...rn branch (21 languages) and a southern branch (8 languages).
3: ... until the 1920's, is classified as an [[Arawakan languages|Arawakan language]], as is [[Garífuna]], a langua...
5: '''Northern Carib languages'''
28: '''Southern Carib languages'''
38: [[Category:Native American languages]]

Arawakan languages (3746 bytes)
1: The '''Arawakan languages''' are an indigenous [[language family]] of [[Sou...
6: ...ompound name to include [[Arawak]] with the "nu-" languages. But the compound name was too clumsy and was soo...
8: The Arawakan languages are spoken over a large swath of territory, from ...
11: ...osest relative among the better attested Arawakan languages seems to be the [[Goajiro]] language spoken in [[...
13: ...ather it resembles, although not too closely, the languages of the [[Llanos de Orinoco]] such as [[Achagua]]....

Penutian languages (1738 bytes)
1: ...]], [[Oregon]], and [[California]]. Many Penutian languages are endangered, with few remaining speakers.
3: ==Penutian languages==
5: * [[Chinookan languages]]
8: * [[Maiduan languages]]
13: * [[Oregon Penutian languages]]

Araucanian languages (643 bytes)
1: The '''Araucanian languages''' are an indigenous [[language family]] of centr...
3: Two Araucanian languages are still spoken. The most widely spoken is [[Map...

Jewish languages (7697 bytes)
6: ...guages, and thus came to speak a great variety of languages. During the early Middle Ages, Aramaic was the p...
8: ...thin the language. Thus were formed a variety of languages specific to the Jewish community; perhaps the mos...
10: ...d [[Turkey]]; smaller groups in Europe spoke such languages as [[Italkian language|Italkian]], [[Yevanic lang...
12: ... other countries (mainly France and Israel) whose languages they often adopted.
14: ...ly in third place. However, virtually all of the languages mentioned above continue to be spoken, though som...

Iroquoian languages (1952 bytes)
1: ...an]] [[language family]]. The family includes the languages of the [[Iroquois Confederacy]] (including the ex...
7: ...th the [[Siouan languages]] as the [[Macro-Siouan languages|Macro-Siouan]] family, but this larger family is ...
9: ===Iroquoian languages===
10: * Northern Iroquoian languages (8)
11: ** [[Five Nations]] languages (5)

Languages of the Caucasus (12376 bytes)
1: ...e [[Caspian Sea]]. Linguistic studies allow those languages to be classified into several language families, ...
7: * '''[[South Caucasian languages|South Caucasian]]''', also called the '''Georgian...
9: * '''[[Northwest Caucasian languages|Northwest Caucasian]]''', also called '''Abkhaz-A...
11: * '''[[North Central Caucasian languages|North Central Caucasian]]''' or '''Nakh''' family...
13: ...d connections between this family and the extinct languages [[Hurrian language|Hurrian]] and [[Urartian langu...

Amerind languages (814 bytes)
1: ...d [[language family]], and instead classify these languages into many smaller families.
13: [[Category:Proposed languages]]

Languages of the Philippines (9251 bytes)
1: ... and sometimes trilingual--speaking both official languages in addition to their regional tongue.
4: ==Native Languages ==
6: ...panish missionaries preached the natives in local languages.
8: ...buano language|Cebuano]], a subgroup of [[Visayan languages|Visayan]], in a close second place. Since [[1939]...
10: Languages including other minor languages:

Rhaetian languages (584 bytes)
1: {{Merge}} [[List of Rhaetian languages]]
3: ...omance]] language sub-family which includes a few languages spoken in [[Switzerland]] and North-Eastern [[Ita...
9: [[Category:Romance languages]]

Apachean languages (30088 bytes)
1: ...xas. This is unusual because most [[Athabaskan]] languages are spoken in the northwest of [[Canada]] and [[A...
8: Southern Athabaskan languages can be divided into 2 groups: (I) Plains Apache a...
24: ...Navajo is one of the most vigorous North American languages (but use among first-graders has declined from 90...
28: ... variations of this description in other Apachean languages.
32: Apachean languages have four vowels of contrasting tongue dimensions...

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