Category
page 1Proposed language families
Altaic
obsolete, widely rejected supergroup of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic language families
Niger–Congo
language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa, uniting the Mande languages, the Atlantic-Congo languages and possibly several smaller groups of languages
Nilo-Saharan
language family
Khoisan
group of African language families with click consonants
Indigenous languages of the Americas
group of languages spoken by the Indigenous population of the Americas
Ibero-Caucasian
language family
Omotic
language family
Trans–New Guinea
Southeast Papuan languages
Nostratic
proposed superfamily of Eurasian and African languages
Andamanese
language family of Andaman
Dené–Yeniseian
proposed language family spoken in Siberia and North America
Ural–Altaic
former language family proposal
North Caucasian
language families
Amerind languages
language family
Tyrsenian
hypothetical language family
Hokan
family of languages which is spoken in California and Mexico
Penutian
possible language family
Eurasiatic
proposed language macrofamily
Dené–Caucasian
proposed language family
Austric
disputed large hypothetical grouping of languages primarily spoken in Southeast Asia and Pacific; includes the Austronesian and Austroasiatic language families
Ubangian
language family of the Central African Republic
Italo-Celtic
language family
Eastern Sudanic
proposed language family
West Papuan
language family of Indonesia
Bora–Witoto
language family
Vasconic
proposed language family including Basque and Aquitanian
Borean
proposed language family
Sepik–Ramu
obsolete language family of New Guinea
Indo-Pacific
spurious hypothetical language macrofamily proposed in 1971 by Joseph Greenberg; contained the Papuan languages and Great Andamanese
Elamo-Dravidian
hypothesised language family that links the Dravidian languages of India
Puyŏ
language family
Macro-Puinavean
proposed family of language spoken in the Amazon
Arutani–Sape
proposed language family
Austro-Tai
hypothetical family of languages
Tibeto-Kanauri
proposed language group
Dakoid
Bantoid language branch of Nigeria
Indo-Uralic
proposed language family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic
East Papuan
language family
Macro-Arawakan
proposed language family
Alarodian
Proposed language family
Aztec–Tanoan
North American aboriginal language family
Mataco-Guaicuru
proposed language family
Quechumaran
Proposed language family of South America
Macro-Chibchan
Native American proposed language family
Chimuan
hypothetical language family of northern Peru and Ecuador
Indo-Hittite
hypothetical proto-language
Language isolates and independent language families in Arunachal
Languages of Arunachal Pradesh, India
Kho-Bwa
language family of northeast India
Uralic–Yukaghir
proposed language family
Lower Mamberamo
proposed language family of New Guinea
Samhan languages
language family
Algonquian–Wakashan
hypothetical language family of North America
Digaro
language family
Yele – West New Britain
proposed language family
Talodi–Heiban
language family
Ramu–Lower Sepik
language family
Hruso
Sino-Tibetan language branch of India
Daly
areal group of Aboriginal languages in Northern Territory, Australia
Gulf
proposed native North American language family consisting of the Muskogean languages, along with four extinct language isolates: Natchez, Tunica, Atakapa, and (possibly) Chitimacha
Plateau Penutian
subgroup within the hypothetical Penutian language family