Historical Grammar1

2016-01-13

Historical grammar

Selected slides

Language families

•    Indo-European

•    437

•    6%

• Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukrainę, United Kingdom, United States

Language families

•    Sino-Tibetan

•    453,20%

•    Sinitic Group: Chinese and its dialects

•    Tai Kadai

•    Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam

Language families

•    Afro-Asiatic

•    366,6%

•    Semitic group: Arabie, Hebrew, Arameic, Amharic (Ethiopia), Akkadian (and its dialects: Assyrian, Babylionian) Syriac, Maltese

•    Ancient Egyptian, Coptic

•    Cushitic group: Somali

•    Berber group: languages scattered across north Africa

•    Chadic: Hausa (languages spoken in Central Africa)

•    Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, lraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somaiia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen

Language families

Niger-Congo

1,524

6%

Yoruba (Nigeria), Swahili, Bantu languages (central and Southern Africa)

Khoisan: Bushman (South Africa), Hottentot (Namibia) Nilo-Saharan: languages of Southern Sahara and spoken along the Nile (Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Chad)

Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Congo, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Language families

•    Austronesian

•    1,223

•    5%

•    Western group: from Madagascar to New Guinea (e.g. Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay)

•    Eastern group: Polynesia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia

•    Indo-Pacific: 700 languages spoken in and around New Guinea

•    Australian Aboriginal languages : 250 languages in 28 families

•    Chile, East Timor, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Thailand

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