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

Did you know that “tea” is either “te” or “cha(i)” in almost all languages in the world? Both names originally come from Chinese 茶, which is pronounced as

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).

The English language, and indeed most European languages, traces it original roots back to a Neolithic (late Stone Age) people known as the Indo-Europeans or

The following map shows the language families of Europe (distinguished by colour) and languages within those families. Note that the terms

Here is a list of the most important family members in the Italian language! Find out more about the word 'family' at dailyitalianwords.com. #italian #italiano #italianlanguage #italianlessons

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

You might know that “family” in French is “famille”. But what about other family vocabulary? Discover them in this beginner’s guide to family in French (with audio files!)