WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A language family is a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language. The one language that generated those other languages in its family is known as a protolanguage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Afrikaans, Dutch, German, English, and French These five European languages not only sound very similar to each other, but some words in them come from a common source. It’s called Romance Germanic people and includes many French, Spanish and Italian words.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Ethnologue (16th edition), there are 147 language families in the world. This figure may not be precise because of our limited knowledge about many of the languages spoken in the most linguistically diverse areas of the world such as Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -A language family is a set of languages deriving from a common ancestor or “parent.” Languages with a significant number of common features in phonology, morphology, and syntax are said to belong to the same language family. Subdivisions of a language family are called “branches."

Detailed explanation-5: -We currently distinguish over 150 language families. Some are bigger and some smaller. The Indo-European family dominates Europe. Yet there are other well-known families around the world, such as the Uralic, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic, and Austroasiatic.

Detailed explanation-6: -Languages are grouped into language types on the basis of formal criteria, according to their similarities in grammatical structure. There are several types: flexile (morphological resources), agglutinative (affixes), and rooted (the root of the word as a morphological resource).