The several General Questions about language origins and some comments I’ve received in the past when referencing what I’d learned as the Ural-Altaic and Afro-Asiatic (FKA Hamito-Semitic) as language phyla, lead me to suggest that it might be interesting to have a broader question, regarding the major language phyla recognized by philologists and ethnolinguists today. In addition to Indo-European, what do today’s scholars recognize as large groups and what, in general terms, do they comprise?
Here’s a great link (which I use all the time) for language families: ethnologue language family index
- wampeter