LANGUAGES FAMILIES OF THE WORLD Make brief notes on each of the following language families as you read about them in this section. Note: They are listed in order by number of speakers, rather than in the order they occur in the reading.

I. Indo-European Family (2.915 billion speakers)

II. Sino-Tibetan Family (1.257 billion speakers)

III. Austronesian Family (366 million speakers)

IV. Afro-Asiatic Family (299 million speakers)

IV. Niger-Congo Family (266)

V. Dravidian Family (223)

VI. Japanese Family (126)

VII. Altaic Family (121)

IX. Southeast Asian Family (75)

X. Korean Family (73) XI. Uralic Family (22)

XII. Amerindian Family (14)

XIII. Other language families

A. Australian Family

B. Papuan Family

C. Nilo-Saharan Family

D. Khoisan Family

E. Georgian Family