Develpment in progress; there are still many more languages to add, as
well as information about those languages and study links for them - please
check back often! Thanks.
The following is information I have gleaned from many sources over the last twenty
six years. "Parent" languages are to the left; "descendant" languages are indented to the
right under the appropriate "parent" language. Other languages which were influential to the
develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the
oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather
that what the speakers of the language called their language.
This is a simplified diagram of the relationship of various modern and obsolete languages
showing their development throughout history from various older languages, mostly now extinct.
This does not include languages in the families known as Indo-European,Ural-Altaic,
African, Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Andamanese, or Oceanic. (As I
add pages for those language families I will place links to them above.)
Unknown American Indigenous Proto-Language (Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan Asiatic Origin or multiple asiatic orgins in waves?)
{The Three groups listed here are not proven to be related linguistically}
(1) North American Indian Languages
Tsimshian
Na-Dene
Athapascan
Dene
Southern Athapascan
Apache-Navaho
Navaho
Apache
Hupa-Matole
Tlingit
Haida
Siouxan
Algonquin
Arapaho
Cheyenne
Eastern Algonkin
Ritwan (also known as Californian)
Cree
Blackfoot
Central Algonkin
Menomini
Fox
Montagnais
Miami
Ojibway
Ojibwa
Chipewa
Illinois
Kickapoo
Shawnee
Potawatomi
Sauk
Mushkogee (Also called Creek)
Sioux
Assiniboin
Biloxi
Crow
Dakota
Iowas
Ogalala
Missouri
Mandan
Katawba
Kansas
Yankton
Winnebago
Omaha
Osage
Oto
Ponka
Teton
Wahpeton
Iroquois
Huron
Onondaga
Cherokee
Seneca
Cayuga
Tuscarora
Mohawk
Oneida
(2) Mexican & Central American Indian Languages
Uto-Aztecan
Nahuatlan
Náhuatl (sometimes called Aztecan by mistake; the language of the Aztecs)
Mayan
Maya
Zapotec
(3) South American & Carribean Indian Languages
Carib
Arawak
7 languages for which I have yet to get the names.
Quechua (The language of the Incas)
Araucan
Mapuche
Rankel
Pehuenche
Leuvuche
Taluche (also called Taluhet)
Huiliche (also called Kunko)
Tupi-Guaraní
Aymara
11 languages for which I have yet to get the names.
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