typological classification of languages

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• Classification of Japonic — The classification of the Japonic languages (Japanese and Ryukyuan) is unclear. The group is traditionally considered to consist of dialects of a single language isolate. The possibility of a genetic relationship to the Goguryeo (Koguryŏ)… …   Wikipedia

• Classification of the Japanese language — The immediate classification of the Japanese language is clear: it is a Japonic language, along with the Ryukyuan languages. Traditionally, these are considered dialects of a single language isolate. However, more distant connections remain… …   Wikipedia

• Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… …   Universalium

• Austronesian languages — formerly Malayo Polynesian languages Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan… …   Universalium

• Ural-Altaic languages — The Ural Altaic languages constitute a hypothetical language family uniting the Uralic and Altaic language families. This hypothetical language family is also known as Uralo Altaic . History of the hypothesis The Altaic hypothesis, as originally… …   Wikipedia

• South American Indian languages — Introduction       group of languages that once covered and today still partially cover all of South America, the Antilles, and Central America to the south of a line from the Gulf of Honduras to the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. Estimates of… …   Universalium

• Pipil language (typological overview) — This rather technical article provides a typological sketch of the Pipil language (also known as Nawat). Another related article outlines Pipil grammar in fuller detail. The distinctive purpose of the present article is to single out those… …   Wikipedia

• Miskito language (typological overview) — This rather technical article provides a typological sketch of the Miskito language. Another related article outlines Miskito grammar in fuller detail. The distinctive purpose of the present article is to single out those specific features of… …   Wikipedia

• South Caucasian languages — Infobox Language family name=South Caucasian altname= Kartvelian region=South Caucasus, Anatolia familycolor=Caucasian family=One of the world s primary language families child1=Georgian child2=Zan *Mingrelian *Laz child3=Svan iso2=cauThe South… …   Wikipedia

• Mirndi languages — Mirndi Geographic distribution: Northern Territory, Australia Linguistic classification: Mirndi Subdivisions: Yirram Barkly …   Wikipedia

• Papuan languages — The distribution of the Papuan languages, in red. Tan is Austronesian, and grey the historical range of Australian. The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not… …   Wikipedia