Fall Institute - October 23, 1996
Created by:
Vassilia Bouzos, Edna Deltoro, Felicia Detschelt, Rina Fortunato, Roxane Gaal, Ruby Mangham, Martha Markoff, Donna Mohlman, Venetia Moreno, Jean Price, Amy Troyani, Barbara Weiss, Almut Wymard, Mario Zinga
This page and its resources were created "in class" as part of the Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh Fall Institute session - Using the Internet in Foreign Languages.
Half the world's population speak languages in this family - Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Celtic, Albanian, and Armenian.
The second largest language family. It includes Chinese with its many dialects, Thai, Burmese and Tibetan.
This group includes Arabic and Hebrew, the Berber tongues of North Africa and the Amharic of Ethiopia.
This family includes Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish Mongol, Manchu and most of the languages spoken in the Asian part of the Solviet Union.
This group includes languages spoken in southern India and parts of Sri Lanka.
This family inlcudes the languages of Inonesia, the Philippines, Hawaii, New Zealand, Madagascar and most of the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans.
This family has about 80 million speakers in Southeast Asia and parts of India.
This group of languages is spoken in areas south of the Sahara and west of the Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.
These languages appear in isolated areas of North, Central and South America.