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Kabila

Language families

A language family is a group of languages that grew from one older language. Peoples on Kabila speak languages from 179 families.

Austronesian 50 Semitic 37 Tupi–Guarani 16 Afro-Asiatic 15 Arawakan 14 Algonquian 13 Siouan 13 Cariban 12 Language isolate 10 Bantu 9 Tanoan 7 Turkic 7 Celtic 6 Keresan 6 Panoan 6 Tupian 6 Indo-European 5 Jê 5 Uralic 5 Indo-Iranian 4 Iroquoian 4 Mongolic 4 Salishan 4 Southern Athabaskan 4 Yuman 4 Baltic 3 Kiowa-Tanoan 3 Siouan-Catawban 3 Tucanoan 3 Tupi 3 Uto-Aztecan 3 Arabic 2 Athabaskan 2 Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian branch) 2 Barbacoan 2 Berber 2 Caddoan 2 Coast Salish 2 Guaicuruan 2 Indo-Aryan 2 Mande 2 Muskogean 2 Niger-Congo 2 North Germanic 2 Pama–Nyungan 2 Tani 2 Tibeto-Burman 2 Turkic (Kipchak branch) 2 Uto-Aztecan (Numic branch) 2 Zamucoan 2 Afroasiatic 1 Afro-Asiatic, Berber (Atlas branch) 1 Afro-Asiatic (Berber branch) 1 Afroasiatic, Cushitic 1 Afro-Asiatic, Semitic 1 Afroasiatic (Semitic and Cushitic branches) 1 Araucanian 1 Arawan 1 Arikém 1 Atlantic-Congo (Niger-Congo) 1 Austroasiatic 1 Austroasiatic (Munda subfamily) 1 Austronesian (Aceh–Chamic branch of Malayo-Polynesian) 1 Austronesian (Bima–Sumba languages) 1 Austronesian (classification debated) 1 Austronesian, Eastern Polynesian 1 Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) 1 Austronesian (New Caledonian branch of Oceanic languages) 1 Austronesian (South Sulawesi languages) 1 Austronesian (South Sulawesi languages, Malayo-Polynesian br 1 Balto-Finnic 1 Bantu (Nguni branch) 1 Bantu (Nguni subgroup) 1 Bantu (Niger–Congo) 1 Berber (Afro-Asiatic), Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) 1 Bora–Witoto (proposed) 1 Borôroan (Macro-Ge) 1 Canaanite (Northwest Semitic) 1 Catawban 1 Central Salish 1 Central Sudanic 1 Chibchan 1 Chimakuan 1 Cushitic 1 Cushitic (Afroasiatic) 1 Dhegiha Siouan 1 Dravidian 1 Eastern Kulin 1 East Slavic 1 Eskaleut (Eskimo–Aleut) 1 Ethiopian Semitic 1 Finnic 1 Finnic (Uralic) 1 Germanic 1 Guaycuruan 1 Gur (Niger–Congo) 1 Hmong-Mien, Tai–Kadai, Sinitic 1 Indo-European (Celtic branch for Gaelic) 1 Japonic 1 Japonic (possibly) 1 Jivaroan 1 Karnic 1 Khoe 1 Khoe, Kxʼa, and Tuu 1 Lampungic (Malayo-Polynesian branch) 1 Language isolate (Chitimacha); others: Indo-European, Romanc 1 Macro-Gê 1 Macro-Ge (formerly); now Portuguese (Indo-European) 1 Macro-Jê 1 Maghrebi Arabic (Pre-Hilalian Arabic) 1 Maipurean (Arawak) 1 Malay (Austronesian) 1 Malayic 1 Malayo-Polynesian 1 Malibu (extinct) 1 Matacoan 1 Maxakalían 1 Mayan 1 Munda 1 Mura 1 Nadahup 1 Nambikwaran 1 Niger–Congo, West Atlantic branch 1 Nilo-Saharan 1 Nilo-Saharan (Eastern Sudanic branch) 1 Nilotic 1 Northeast Caucasian 1 Northeast Caucasian (Avar–Andic branch) 1 Northwest Caucasian 1 Old South Arabian 1 Palaihnihan, possibly Hokan phylum 1 Pama–Nyungan (Bandjalangic branch) 1 Pama-Nyungan (Kalaw Lagaw Ya), Eastern Trans-Fly (Meriam Mir 1 Penutian 1 Polynesian 1 Pomoan (Kulanapan) 1 possibly Macro-Jê 1 Puyŏ languages 1 Quechua 1 Quechuan 1 Quechuan (Kichwa); formerly Barbacoan (Cara) 1 Sahaptian (Plateau Penutian) 1 Sahaptin (Penutian family) 1 Sámi (Uralic) 1 Samoyedic (Uralic) 1 Semitic (Arabic, Syriac), Iranian (Middle Persian) 1 Sino-Tibetan 1 Siouan (Dhegihan branch) 1 Slavic 1 Southern Nilotic (Nilo-Saharan) 1 Tacanan 1 Tai-Kadai 1 Tani languages 1 Thura-Yura branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages 1 Trans–New Guinea 1 Trans–New Guinea (Awyu–Dumut family) 1 Trans–New Guinea (Ngalik-Nduga and Mek subgroups) 1 Trans–New Guinea (Papuan) 1 Tsimshianic 1 Tungusic 1 Turkic, Indo-Iranian 1 Turkic (Karluk branch) 1 Turkic, Mongolic, Iranian 1 Turkic (Siberian branch) 1 Unclassified; possibly a language isolate 1 Uru–Chipaya languages, Aymaran, Spanish (Indo-European) 1 Uto-Aztecan (Central Numic branch) 1 Uto-Aztecan, Oto-Manguean 1 Uto-Aztecan (Piman group) 1 Volta-Niger (Niger–Congo) 1 Western Iranic 1 West Germanic 1 West Slavic 1 Witotoan languages 1 Yakonan 1 Yanomaman 1 Yuman–Cochimí 1 Yuman (Upland Yuman branch), possibly Hokan 1 Yurúna (Tupian languages) 1

Seven peoples, once a week

Every Monday: seven peoples you may never have heard of, who they are and where they live.