Language Families of the World

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Course No. 2235.
30 lectures, 30 minutes each.
Disc 1. Why are there so many languages? -- The first family discovered: Indo-European -- Indo-European languages in Europe -- Indo-European languages in Asia -- The click languages -- Niger-Congo: largest family in Africa I -- Disc 2. Niger-Congo: largest family in Africa II -- Languages of the fertile crescent and beyond I -- Languages of the fertile crescent and beyond II -- Nilo-Saharan: Africa's hardest languages? -- Is the Indo-European family alone in Europe? -- How to identify a language family -- Disc 3. What is a Caucasian language? -- Indian languages that aren't Indo-European -- Languages of the Silk Road and beyond -- Japanese and Korean: alike yet unrelated -- The languages we call Chinese -- Chinese's family circle: Sino-Tibetan -- Disc 4 Southeast Asian languages: The Sinosphere -- Languages of the South Seas I -- Languages of the South Seas II -- Siberia and beyond: language isolates -- Creole languages -- Why are there so many languages in New Guinea? -- Disc 5 The languages of Australia I -- The languages of Australia II -- The original American languages I The original American languages II The original American languages III The original American languages IV -- Disc 6 Languages caught between families -- How far back can we trace languages? -- What do genes say about language families? -- Language families and writing systems.
Lecturer: Professor John McWhorter, Columbia University.
A professor of English delves into the past, present, and future of different languages.
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