The major language families in the world are Afro-Asiatic (353 languages
spoken i Africa and Asia), Austronesian (1 246 languages spoken in Asia and
Oceania), Indo-European (430 languages spoken in Asia and Europe, and in
European settlements in other parts of the world), Niger-Congo (1 495 languages
spoken in Africa), Sino-Tibetan (399 languages spoken in Asia), and Trans-New
Guinea (561 languages spoken in New Guinea and adjacent islands).