Language family of your mother tongue

The great family your first language belongs to — the deep branches of human language, studied in linguistics.

A plain fact about your mother tongue's linguistic family. Pick the closest if you grew up multilingual. (Linguistics)

Groups

• Indo-European — English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Persian, and many more.
• Sino-Tibetan — Mandarin and other Chinese languages, Tibetan, Burmese.
• Afro-Asiatic — Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Hausa, and relatives.
• Niger-Congo — Swahili, Yoruba, Zulu, and much of sub-Saharan Africa.
• Austronesian — Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay, and Pacific languages.
• Dravidian — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam of South India.
• Turkic — Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh.
• Japonic / Koreanic — Japanese and Korean.
• Other / unsure — A different family, an isolate, or not sure.

Related topics

• Your bond with your mother tongue
• Your writing system
• Your accent
• How many languages you use
• Your dominant language

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