Proposed language families Proposed language families The Alarodian languages are a proposed language family that encompasses the Northeast Caucasian or Dagestan languages with the extinct Hurro-Urartian languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alarodian languages"
Amerind is one of the three families in Joseph Greenberg's controversial classification of all Native American languages, obtained by his mass lexical comparison method — the other two being Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut. Most linguists consider the method unreliable, and reject the Amerind family as unsupported, classifying these languages instead into many smaller families. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amerind languages"
The Austric language superfamily is a large theoretical grouping of languages primarily spoken in South East Asia and the Pacific. It includes the Austronesian language family of the Malay archipelago, Pacific islands and Madagascar, as well as the Austroasiatic language family of mainland South East Asia and Eastern India. The hypothesis of a genetic relationship between these two language families is not widely accepted among linguists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Austric languages"
The Coahuiltecan a general group of people living in the southern Texas region near the Rio Grande. These people are most often described in their post contact condition which left them in a state very similar to a society which has survived a terrible disaster. Accounts of these people state that they lived in very dirty and smelly camps and have been seen eating rotten meat, dirt, maggots, and bugs. Many scholars now believe that as many as 90% of these people have lost their lives due to European disease which in turn may account for how they existed after contact was made. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coahuiltecan"
The Dene-Caucasian (or Sino-Caucasian) language family is a conjectural macrofamily containing the Sino-Tibetan, North Caucasian, Yeniseian, Basque and Na-Dene languages. The theory, first scientifically formulated in the 1980s by Sergei Starostin, is based in large part on the work of Alfredo Trombetti, Karl Bouda, and Edward Sapir. Many linguists, in particular John Bengtson, have proposed including Basque as well. However, due to the uncertainty of comparative linguistics, this has never been demonstrated unequivocally, and most linguists do not accept that these language families are related. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dene-Caucasian languages"
The East Bird's Head-Sentani languages form a family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross which combines the East Bird's Head and Sentani families along with the Burmeso and Tause language isolates. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Würm's proposal for Trans-New Guinea. It has lexical similarities with the Asmat languages, but Ross does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship. ...more on Wikipedia about "East Bird's Head-Sentani languages"
The Elamo-Dravidian languages are a hypothesised language family which includes the living Dravidian languages of India and Pakistan, in addition to the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam, in what is now southwestern Iran. Linguist David McAlpin has been a chief proponent of the Elamo-Dravidian Hypothesis. In addition to Elamite and the Dravidian languages, some speculate that the extinct language or languages of the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, may be part of the Elamo-Dravidian language family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elamo-Dravidian languages"
The Eurasiatic languages are a hypothetical language group from which allegedly descend several language families of Europe and Asia, including Indo-European languages, Uralic and Altaic. It was developed by Joseph Greenberg. The theory was rejected by many linguists, mainly due to the controversial method used, mass lexical comparison. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eurasiatic languages"
The Geelvink Bay languages are a hypothetical language family of a dozen languages in and to the south of Geelvink Bay in Indonesian Papua, also known as Sarera Bay or Cenderawasih. The best known Geelvink Bay language is Yawa, spoken on Yapen Island. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geelvink Bay languages"
The term Ibero-Caucasian (or Iberian-Caucasian) was proposed by Georgian linguist Arnold Chikobava for the union of the three language families that are specific to the Caucasus area, namely ...more on Wikipedia about "Ibero-Caucasian languages"
The Indo-Pacific hypothesis, published by Joseph Greenberg in 1971, proposes that the Papuan languages (a large number of language families spoken in Papua New Guinea and nearby islands which are not Austronesian) are distantly related to each other as well as to the native languages of Tasmania and the Andaman Islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indo-Pacific languages"
Indo-Uralic is a hypothetical language family ...more on Wikipedia about "Indo-Uralic languages"
The Kwomtari-Baibai languages are a hypothetical language family of five languages spoken by some 4000 people in central New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kwomtari-Baibai languages"
The Lakes Plain languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lakes Plain languages"
The Left May-Kwomtari languages are a small family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross, which links the Left May family with the Kwomtari family of Stephen Würm's Kwomtari-Baibai proposal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Left May-Kwomtari languages"
The Macro-Siouan languages are a proposed language family that includes the Siouan, Iroquoian, and Caddoan languages. Most linguists remain unconvinced that these three language groups share a genetic relationship, and the existence of a Macro-Siouan language family remains a subject of some debate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Macro-Siouan languages"
North Caucasian languages is a blanket term for two language phyla spoken chiefly in the north Caucasus and Turkey: the Northwest Caucasian (Pontic, Abkhaz-Adyghe, Circassian) family and the Northeast Caucasian (East Caucasian, Caspian, Nakh-Dagestanian) family; the latter including the former North-central Caucasian (Nakh) family. ...more on Wikipedia about "North Caucasian languages"
Nostratic is a controversial language " super-family" that suggests links between many Eurasian language families. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nostratic languages"
Proto-Pontic is a postulated proto-language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proto-Pontic language"
The Ramu-Lower Sepik languages form a family of 35 Papuan languages spoken in the Ramu river basin of northern Papua New Guinea. The languages tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ramu-Lower Sepik languages"
The Sepik languages are a proposed family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea. The languages tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sepik languages"
The Sepik-Ramu languages are a hypothetical language family linking the Sepik, Ramu, Nor-Pondo (Lower Sepik), Leonhard Schultze (Walio-Papi), and Yuat families, together with the Taiap language isolate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sepik-Ramu languages"
The South-Central Papuan languages are a family of Papuan languages proposed in 2005 by Malcolm Ross. It inherits much of the Trans Fly-Bulaka River branch of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. ...more on Wikipedia about "South-Central Papuan languages"
The Tor-Kwerba languages are an independent family of Papuan languages proposed in 2005 by Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tor-Kwerba languages"
The Torricelli languages are a hypothetical language family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by only about 80 000 people in all. The most populous and best known Torricelli language is Arapesh, with about 20 000 speakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Torricelli languages" http://www.shortopedia.com, just the best. Proposed_language_families
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