The World’s Languages

1-Basque 


2-Finno-Ugric (Uralic)

3-Indo-European


4-Altaic


5-Korean


6-Japanese


7-Sino-Tibetan


8-Malayo-Polynesian*


*Austronesian, (Astro-Asiatic)
*Not considered a primary language group. The island of “New Guinea’s” languages are contained in the group of “Austronesian” (Eastern-Malayo-Polynesian), and “Papuan.”
There are many New Guinean language families; some linguists group them all together as "Papuan" however, this is somewhat controversial.

 9-New Guinea­*


10-Australian 


11-Dravidian


12-Afro-Asiatic


13-Nilo-Saharan


14-Niger-Kordofanian


15-Khoisan


16-Caucasian


 Let's assign "17" to the American Indian languages. Using the numbers from the above map (and 17), below is a chart of languages found in each group.

12-Amharic  2-Estonian 2-Finnish 10-Hawaiian
15-Dinka 2-Lappish 15-Bushman 12-Hebrew
10-Indonesian 14-Swahili 17-Chinook 17-Creek
17-Nahuatl 12-Berber 16-Georgian 17-Menomini
12-Arabic 10-Fijian 7-Mandarin 14-Xhosa
17-Eskimo 11-Malayalam 7-Tibetan 4-Mongolian
8-Javanese 8-Tagalog 8-Maori 14-Zulu
3-Quechua 4-Manchu 4-Turkish 4-Hungarian
3-Aymara 11-Tamil 12-Coptic 12-Cushitic