Language tree explorer

Primary language families

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• The Indo-European language family

• English, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

• Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian

• Polish, Russian, Bulgarian

• Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi

• Persian (Farsi), Pashto, The Kurdish languages

• The Sino-Tibetan language family

  • Mandarin (Chinese)

• The Niger-Congo language family

  • Swahili

• The Afro-Asiatic language family

  • Modern Arabic languages

  • Modern Hebrew

  • Neo-aramaic languages

• The Austronesian language family

  • Malay

  • Javanese

  • Filipino / Tagalog

• The Dravidian language family

  • Telugu

  • Tamil

  • Kannada

• The Turkic language family

  • Turkish

  • Uzbek

  • Azerbaijani

• The Japonic language family

  • Japanese

• The Austroasiatic language family

  • Vietnamese

  • Khmer

• The Kra-Drai language family

  • Thai

• The Koreanic language family

  • Korean

• The Uralic language family

  • Hungarian

  • Finnish

  • Estonian

• The Dené–Yeniseian language family

• Navajo

• The Eskimo–Aleut language family

• Greenlandic

Note: this list is not complete and not exhaustive! It has been estimated that there are around 7,097 known languages in the modern world. These languages have been categorised into hundreds of language families, which are constantly being revised and changed. 

I would recommend ethnologue for the most up-to-date information about language categorisation.