page_title: List of language families
section_title: Language families (non-sign)
hierarchical_section_title: List of language families / Language families (non-sign)
caption_attribution_description: English: Distribution of the Dravidian languages in South Asia, distinguishing four major subgroups: South (red), South-Central (orange), Central (yellow) and North (green). Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77111-0, Map 1.1, p. 18.
context_page_description: The following is a list of language families. It also includes language isolates, unclassified languages and other types.
context_section_description: In the following, each bullet item is a known or suspected language family.  Phyla with historically wide geographical distributions but comparatively few current-day speakers include Eskimo–Aleut, Na-Dené, Algic, Quechuan and Nilo-Saharan. 
  The geographic headings over them are meant solely as a tool for grouping families into collections, more comprehensible than an unstructured list of a few hundred independent families.  Geographic relationship is convenient for that purpose, but these headings are not a suggestion of any "super-families" phylogenetically relating the families named. 
  The number of individual languages in a family and the number of their speakers are only rough estimates: see dialect or language and linguistic demography for further explanation.
caption: Map of major Dravidian languages
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