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Some Language Families Are Enormous

There is no upper limit to how many languages a family can contain. The Austronesian family has over 1,000 languages.

The Biggest Language Families

Stunning aerial view of tropical islands in the clear blue waters of MIMAROPA, Philippines.

Counting Families Gets Messy

Different sources give very different totals for the world's language families. The numbers shift because scholars disagree about dialects, isolates, and where some languages belong.

The Biggest Language Families

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