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Name the major families of human languages spoken in the world. Warning: many such linguistic classifications are controversial and debated.
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- Sino-Tibetan (1,600m)
- 78.4%
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- Indo-European (1,600m)
- 67.6%
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- Afro-Asiatic (350m)
- 51.4%
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- Niger-Congo (160m)
- 35.1%
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- Altaic (200m)
- 35.1%
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- Dravidian (200m)
- 32.4%
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- Austronesian (300m)
- 32.4%
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- Na-Déne (200,000)
- 32.4%
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- Uralic (25m)
- 27.0%
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- Pama-Nyungan (20,000)
- 21.6%
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- Amerindian (2m; several families)
- 21.6%
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- Eskimo-Aleut (200,000)
- 21.6%
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- Tai-Kadai (90m)
- 18.9%
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- Nilo-Saharan (11m)
- 16.2%
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- Austro-Asiatic (100m)
- 13.5%
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- Papuan (5m; several families)
- 13.5%
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- Caucasian (8m)
- 10.8%
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- Khoisan (300,000)
- 8.1%
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- Others
- 5.4%
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- Afro-Asiatic (350m)
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- Niger-Congo (160m)
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- Nilo-Saharan (11m)
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- Khoisan (300,000)
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- Indo-European (1,600m)
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- Caucasian (8m)
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- Altaic (200m)
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- Uralic (25m)
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- Dravidian (200m)
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- Sino-Tibetan (1,600m)
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- Austro-Asiatic (100m)
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- Austronesian (300m)
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- Pama-Nyungan (20,000)
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- Papuan (5m; several families)
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- Tai-Kadai (90m)
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- Amerindian (2m; several families)
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- Na-Déne (200,000)
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- Eskimo-Aleut (200,000)
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- Others