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Listen and you will hear
It's the mouth that feeds the ear

Look and you will see why
How the hand feeds the eye

(Ondine's Lament)

 

Eye See

 

Spoken Language Families

American Indian North

North America

300

Algonquian,

Caddoan

Hokan

Iroquoian

 

Kiowa-Tanoan

Muskogean

NaDene

 

Penutian

Salishan

Siouan

 

Uto-Aztecan

 

Wakashan

Other

Ojibwa

Wichitan

Mohave

Mohawk

Cherokee

Apache

Choctaw

Navajo

Chipewyan

Maidu

Flathead

Winnebago

Crow

Comanche

Washo

Nootka

 

Cree

Pawnee

Quechan

Oneida

Cayuga

Kiowa

Creek

Zuni –Tewa

Kutchin

Tsimshian

Kalispel

Omaha

Santee

Shoshone

Paiute-Ute

Kwakiutl

Potawatomi

 

NezPerce

Seneca

 

 

Chickasaw

Mescalero

Beaver

 

 

Dakota

Assiniboine

Papago - Hopi

Piman-Yaqui

 

American Indian Meso

Mexico

5

Macro-Chibchan

Mayan

Mixe-Zoquean

Oto-Manguean

 

Totonacan

Uto-Aztecan

Miskito

Quiche

Mixe

Zapotec

Chichimeca

Totonac

Aztec

Bribri

Yucatec

 

Miahuatian

 

 

Nahuatl

Cogui

Husatec

 

Otomi

American Indian South

South America

1000

Arawakan

Kariban

Macro-Chibchan

Macro-Ge

Pano-Takanan

Quechamaran

Tukanoan

Tupian

 

Other

 

Manao

Panare

 

Kayapo

Chacabo-Taka Quechua-Peru

Cubeo

Guarani

Tupi

Kunsa

Mocovi

Pilaga

Puelche

Mapudungu

Wahibo

Pemong

 

Xerente

Tehuelche

Aymara

Kandoshi

Munduruku

Wanyam

Wahibo

Yanomama

Hivaro

Karihona

 

 

Bororo

Shipibo

 

Tukano

Bauri

Chiriguano

Chiriguano

Kariri

Mura

Isolates

Variable

 

 

Basque -Spain, France
Chukchi - Siberia  Koryak

Burushaski - Pakistan 

Ket - Russia

Eskimo Aleut

Greenland, Alaska
Northern Canada

12

Greenlandic

Inuit

Greenlandic

Yupik

Indo European

Indus Valley,

Russia,

Europe

Great Britain

Iceland

 

 

Albanian

Armenian

Baltic-Slavic

Celtic

Germanic

Greek

Indo-Iranian

Romance

English

Welsh

Scots Gaelic

Irish

Breton

Frisian

Danish

Swedish

Norwegian

Dutch

Icelandic

German

French

Italian

Spanish

Portuguese

Polish

Slovak

Croatian

Czech

Bulgarian

Romanian

Greek

Lithuanian

Russian

Armenian

Kurdish

Persian

Mazanderani

Uzbek

Urdu

Dari

Pashto

Gurung

Kashmiri

Nepali

Baluchi

Sindhi

Gujarati

Hindi

Panjabi

Marathi

Rjasthani

Qashqai

 

Afro-Asiatic

Mesoptamia

North Africa

 

Babylon

Assyria

Sumerian

Egypt

Palestine

Berber

Cushtic

Omotic

Semitic

Arabic

Niger-Congo

Western Africa

South Central East Africa

1400

Ľ world

Niger Congo -Swahili

 

 

 

Nilo-Saharan

Central East Africa

 

Sudan - Dongolawi

Fur

Maban

Saharan

Komuz

Khoisan

South West Africa

extinct

Oldest

Clicking

Hadza

Sandawe

Afrikaans

Caucasian

Southern Russia Caucausus Mntns Caspian Sea

40

 

Georgian

Lak

 

Uralic

Northern Europe Russia

 

Finno-Urgic

Samoyed

Hungarian

Finnish

Karelian

Estonian

Nenets

 

Altaic

Northern Asia

Siberia

Southern Asia

 

Mongolian

Turkic

Tungusic

Turkish

Kurdish

Azerbaijani

Tatar

Kazakh

Uzbek

Turkmenian

Kirghiz

Mongolian

Chakhar

Ordos

Yakut

Evenki

Uyhgur

 

Dravidan

Southern India

Pakistan,

Sri Lanka

 

 

Brahui

Telugu

Malayalam

Sinhalese

Japanese/Korean

Korea

Japan

2

Japanese Ryukyuan

Korean

 

 

 

Sino-Tibetan

China

Burma

8

Sinnitic

Tibeto Burman

Khams

Qiang

Xiang

Min

Wu

Gan

Mandarin

Torgut

Ladakhi

Ruthog

Manipuri

Lushai

Mizo Lai

Jinghpaw

Shan

Mon

Pho

Assamese

 

 

Hmong-Mien

South China

36

 

Hmong

 

 

Kam-Tai

Southwest China

Thailand

Burma

Laos

 

Kadai

Tai

Kamsui

Thai

Lao

Yuan

Pak Tay

Burmese

 

Austro-Asiatic

Vietnam

Southern India

 

Mon Khmer

Munda

Vietnamese

Khmer

Cambodian

Brao

 

Austronesian

Formosa

Philippines

Indonesia

Malaysia

Pacific islands

 

Polynesia

New Zealand

Madagascar

1200

Formosan

Malayo-Polynesian

Formosan

Magindanao Toba Batak

Borneo

Malay

Sudanese

Fijan

Maori

Malagasy

Sinhalese

Maranao

Lalaki

Orang Hulu

Sumatran

Javanese

 

Tagalog

Lampung

Sinhalese

 

Timorese

 

Australian

Australia

250

Pama Nyungan

Undetermined

 

Wororan

Nyulnyulan

Bunaben

Nyangumarda

Yindjibarndi

Djingili

Wambayan

Gugadja

Walmadjari

Garawan

Warlpiri

Pintupi

Wik

Mungkana

Gugu Yimidhir

Pitjantjtjara

Ngaanyatjara

Wangganguru

Diyari

Wororan

Tiwi

Waray

Mingin

Anmatjirra

Aranda

Bandjalang

Dyangadi

Wangaaybuwan

Ngiyambaa

Australian Papuan

New Guinea

750

 

Dani

Kewa

Nakani

Motu

Enga

Gadsup

 

 

From: Voices of  the World Map  National Geographic Society 1999.

 

 

 

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