Develpment in progress; there are still many more languages to add, as
well as information about those languages and study links for them - please
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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 Finno-Ugric, Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic,
African, Ural-Altaic (Asiatic), American Indiginous, Andamanese, Caucasian, or Oceanic. (As I
add pages for those language families I will place links to them above.)
PROTO SINO-TIBETAN ASIATIC (A theoretical language of unknown origin)
"Proto Sino-Tibetan Asiatic" languages could possibly be divided into about five groups;
the Ainu language,
the Gilyak language,
the Eskimo-Aleut languages,
the Chukchi-Kamchadal languages,
and the the Sino-Tibetan languages.
Ainu (An ancient language still spoken in Northern Japan, possibly indigenous to Japan.)
Gilyak
Eskimo-Aleut
Aleut
Eskimo
Chukchi-Kamchadal
Chukchi
Kamchadal
Koryak
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burmese
Tibeto-Himalayan
Bhotian (Tibetan)
Balti
Unknown name of language
Unknown name of language
Bodo-Naga-Kachin (Middle and South Assamese)
Naga
Naga-Bodo
Naga-Kuki
Bodo (Also called Bara)
Kachin (Also called Singhpho)
Arakan-Burmese
Arakanese
Maghi (Burmese)
Kuki-Chin
"Old" Kuki
Chinese
Wen-Li
Yüeh (Cantonese)
Wu
M in
North Mandarin
Kuo Yü
Southeast Asiatic (Also called Austric)
Indonesian
Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
Batak
Dayak
Bontok
Balinese
Buginese (Also called "Bugi" or "Bugis")
Bisaya (Visaya)
Bicol
Austro-Asiatic
Mon-Khmer
Cham
Annamese-Muong
Muong
Annamese (Vietnamese)
Munda (Kolarian
Chota-Nagpur
Himalayan
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