<p>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.</p><p>I. Indo-European Family (2.915 billion speakers)</p><p>II. Sino-Tibetan Family (1.257 billion speakers)</p><p>III. Austronesian Family (366 million speakers)</p><p>IV. Afro-Asiatic Family (299 million speakers)</p><p>IV. Niger-Congo Family (266)</p><p>V. Dravidian Family (223)</p><p>VI. Japanese Family (126)</p><p>VII. Altaic Family (121)</p><p>IX. Southeast Asian Family (75)</p><p>X. Korean Family (73) XI. Uralic Family (22)</p><p>XII. Amerindian Family (14)</p><p>XIII. Other language families</p><p>A. Australian Family</p><p>B. Papuan Family</p><p>C. Nilo-Saharan Family</p><p>D. Khoisan Family</p><p>E. Georgian Family</p>