Kolipakam, V., Jordan, F. M., Dunn, M., Greenhill, S. J., Bouckaert, R., Gray, R. D., & Verkerk, A. (2018). A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. Royal Society Open Science, 5(3), 171504. doi:doi:10.1098/rsos.171504

A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family

The seven major language families of Europe and Asia may trace back to a common ancestral language of only about 15,000 years ago.

- Altaic
- Chukchee-Kamchatkan
- Dravidian
- Inuit-Yupik
- Indo-European
- Kartvelian
- Uralic

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Language families are groups of languages connected through a common language (called a ancestral, parental, or proto-language) that all languages in the family developed from. Language family classification is not always universally agreed upon.

Language Families

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