Does anyone know all or some of the language family trees?

Answer 1

The definitive Web site to answer your question is ethnologue. It was created by professional linguists, and it is complete (although there are disagreements within the field about some of the details). See sources section below. It has a complete alphabetized list of top-level families; click on any family name for more details of its family tree.

Answer 2

I can tell you that French, Romanian, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese all came from Latin. English is based on Teutonic languages but only 40 percent of the words are Teutonic. The rest are from Latin but came into the language through the languages mentioned above--mostly French. The Teutonic languages are German, Austrian, Swiss, and all the Scandinavian languages. All of these came from a hypothetical mother language known as Indo-European. If you look up Ind-
European languages you may find a chart. I know that most English student dictionaries have one.

Answer 3

This is a good article about language families: http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html

Romance languages are all very similar. Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Romanian are the major ones, but this family also incudes regional languages like Catalan, French Creole, Spanish Creole, etc. I don't know every one of the Romance languages, but I'm fairly proficient in Spanish. I can read Portuguese and Catalan fairly easily. I can read French and Italian and mostly understand the meaning, but of course I'm missing a lot of it. I can't read Romanian, though. It's got a very heavy Slavic influence (at least, I think the influence is Slavic) and it's not as similar to the other Romance languages as they are to each other.

Answer 4

Good question, french, italian, spanish are referred to as romantic and english, dutch, german, norwegian languages, are referred to as germanic. I might have left some languages out under those two but you get the idea. it all probably has a lot to do with the disbursment of people from africa over the years. the first group of people went along the indian ocean and into asia, the next went to india then north and into europe and the last went to mesopotamia or about iran and then back along the mediterranean

Answer 5

There are so many I would not be able to type them. This site will give you a good idea though and it also has maps showing where languages are spoken.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees/

Answer 6

If someone had not already answered with Ethnologue, I'd send you there. It is the only web site with such thorough coverage. Although there are some mistakes and errors in it, overall, it is the best and tries to keep up-to-date.

Answer 7

i know that Latin gave birth to Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, and Romanian, but thats it

Answer 8

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/language.html