Name the Language Family

For each language given, name the language family that it belongs in. All but one of the top 9 language families has more than one language listed here.

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Last updated: October 14, 2012

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Hint	Answer
Arabic	Afro-Asiatic
Yoruba	Niger-Congo
Brahui	Dravidian
Azerbaijani	Altaic
Malay	Austronesian
Wu	Sino-Tibetan
English	Indo-European
Zulu	Niger-Congo
Vietnamese	Austro-Asiatic
Jinyu	Sino-Tibetan
Hebrew	Afro-Asiatic
Uzbek	Altaic
Igbo	Niger-Congo
Khmer (Cambodian)	Austro-Asiatic
Tamil	Dravidian
Tagalog	Austronesian
Portuguese	Indo-European
Santali	Austro-Asiatic
Turkish	Altaic
Min	Sino-Tibetan
Malayalam	Dravidian
Indonesian	Austronesian
Swahili	Niger-Congo
Amharic	Afro-Asiatic
Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan
Hindi	Indo-European
Telugu	Dravidian
Oromo	Afro-Asiatic
Kazakh	Altaic
Khasi	Austro-Asiatic
Javanese	Austronesian
Spanish	Indo-European
Shona	Niger-Congo
Japanese	Japanese
Uyghur	Altaic
Kannada	Dravidian
Bengali	Indo-European
Sunda	Austronesian
Tay	Austro-Asiatic
Hausa	Afro-Asiatic
Yue (Cantonese)	Sino-Tibetan

Level 64

Feb 15, 2017

Altaic is no longer considered a valid family. Those four examples are all Turkic.

Level 34

Feb 23, 2020

I think 'Japanese' is not a proper name for the family. The family is usually called Japonic.

Level 76

Feb 6, 2022

If you'll be using the Altaic hypothesis please indicate in the description and also include Japanese in it. Or at the very least accept "Japonic" because that's the proper term.

Level 57

May 3, 2022

Indo-European is very general