Language families

The Old World Language Families infographic from Stand Still Stay Silent Comic shows the “roots” of our modern languages. Follow each language’s path from bush to roots and discover how closely languages are related to each other. Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered

The main divisions of the Indo-European Group. Many languages that we today find to be very different are in fact descended from the same original root language, English, along with many of the languages of Europe, parts of Asia, and India are descendants of the same common ancestor language spoken perhaps 7,000 to 9,000 years ago: Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

Family in Spanish culture is a really important concept, and the word for family in Spanish is similar to English, “familia”.

The Indo-European language family tree (from Anthropology.net, originally from Scientific American, March 1990)

The map below shows the word “child” (in the sense of a “young human being”) translated into various European languages. Words that share a common origin are represented

Map found on redditThis map humorously depicts the reactions of different European nations when a foreigner attempts to speak their language.

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The idiom, "It's all Greek to me," finally makes sense.

Discover how to talk about your family in English with names, relationships, pictures. Boost your family conversations confidently!

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