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Subfamilies

African Isolates
Afro-Asiatic Chadic, Cushitic, Berber, Semitic, and Egyptian.
Arawakan
Austro-Asiatic Mon-Khmer, Munda, and several branches you may well have not known of.
Austronesian Island-hoppers extraordinaire.
Chukotko-Kamchatkan Chukchi, Koryak, and Itelmen.
Daic
Dravidian
Eurasian Isolates Language Isolates of Eurasia.
Hurro-Urartian
Indo-European
Japonic
Kartvelian Georgian, Svan, Laz, and Mingrelian. And Screeves.
Korean
Mayan
Mesoamerica
Mongolian
New Guinea (Geographic) ALL THE LANGUAGES
Niger-Congo
Nilo-Saharan Songhay, Kanuri and its allies, Central and Southern Sudanic, and many, many more.
North America (Geographic) The continental area north of the Mesoamerican cultural zone.
Northeast Caucasian The Lezgian clan, Andi, Chechen, Avar, Udi, Ingush, Archi, and Tsez's brood, among others.
Northwest Caucasian Abkhaz, Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh
Otomanguean Mixtec, Zapotec, Tlapantec and many others.
Sign languages
Sino-Tibetan Polysyllables? We don't need no stinkin' polysyllables!
South America (geographic) The nearly-island continent and the Caribbean islands.
Tungusic
Turkic
Uralic

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