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The following is a list of proposed language families, which connect established families into larger genetic groups (macro-families). Support for these proposals vary from case to case. For example, the Dené–Yeniseian languages are a recent proposal which has been generally well received, whereas reconstructions of the Proto-World language are often viewed as fringe science. Proposals which are themselves based on other proposals have the likelihood of their parts noted in parentheses.
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The following is a listofproposedlanguagefamilies, which connect established families into larger genetic groups (macro-families). Support for these...
a listoflanguagefamilies. This list only includes primary languagefamilies that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics;...
farming. In 2001, Stanley Starosta proposed a new languagefamily named East Asian, that includes all primary languagefamilies in the broader East Asia region...
validity of many of the proposedfamilies in the listoflanguagefamilies. For example, the reconstructible common ancestor of the Indo-European language family...
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distinct languagefamilies and two language isolates. All but two Khoisan languages are indigenous to southern Africa and belong to three languagefamilies. The...
of East Asian analytic languages that constitute a major branch of the Sino-Tibetan languagefamily. It is frequently proposed that there is a primary...
Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a languagefamily (or "phylum") of about 400...
proposedlanguagefamily that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languagefamilies and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages.: 73 ...
Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a languagefamily native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in...
The Hokan /ˈhoʊkæn/ languagefamily is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small languagefamilies spoken mainly in California, Arizona, and Baja California...
River region of central Siberia. As part of the proposed Dené–Yeniseian languagefamily, the Yeniseian languages have been argued to be part of "the first...
synonymous. Proposed homelands of the Proto-Uralic language include: The vicinity of the Volga River, west of the Urals, close to the Urheimat of the Indo-European...
Nostratic is a hypothetical language macrofamily including many of the languagefamiliesof northern Eurasia first proposed in 1903. Though a historically...
Penutian is a proposed grouping oflanguagefamilies that includes many Native American languagesof western North America, predominantly spoken at one...
to one of the two large languagefamilies that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger–Congo. Another hundred belong to smaller families such as...
formed part of this literary standard. Proto-Goidelic, or proto-Gaelic, is the proposed proto-language for all branches of Goidelic. It is proposed as the...
languagefamilies have been proposed, most systematically with Koreanic, but none have been conclusively demonstrated. The extant Japonic languages belong...
language macrofamily proposal that would include many languagefamilies historically spoken in northern, western, and southern Eurasia. The idea of a...
or Boralean) is a hypothetical (i.e. proposed) linguistic macrofamily that encompasses almost all languagefamilies worldwide except those native to the...
North Caucasian families. Nevertheless, some scholars have proposed the single name Ibero-Caucasian for all the Caucasian languagefamilies, North and South...
extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European languagefamily. The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers...
The Austroasiatic languages (/ˌɒstroʊ.eɪʒiˈætɪk, ˌɔː-/ OSS-troh-ay-zhee-AT-ik, AWSS-) are a large languagefamily spoken throughout mainland Southeast...
America. South American languagesfamiliesproposed in Glottolog 4.1 Paul Rivet (1924) lists 77 independent languagefamiliesof South America. Alakaluf...
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