ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an account of the languages of the world and presents the major ethnolinguistic families, such as Khoisan, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Australian Aboriginal, Trans-New Guinea, Austroasian, Hmong, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian, Basque, Caucasian, Burushaski, Yenisseian, Sino-Tibetan, Na-Dené, Afroasiatic, Altaic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Paleosiberian, and Uralic, providing basic data about the number of languages and their speakers in each group. This chapter includes one global linguistic map.
