{"id":3907,"date":"2015-06-03T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2015-06-03T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:46:44","slug":"the-language-forest-how-are-world-languages-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/the-language-forest-how-are-world-languages-related\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language Forest: how are world languages related?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how different\u00a0languages in the world are related to each other? Some of the answers may be surprising&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know, for example, that the Finnish language isn&#8217;t directly related to Danish or Norwegian? It&#8217;s actually a Uralic language, in the same family as Hungarian and Estonian, whereas the others are North Germanic.<\/p>\n<p>Or that\u00a0Korean and Basque are two examples of a language isolate, which means they&#8217;re not related to any other language in the world?<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/statistics\/family\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnologue<\/a>, the Indo-European\u00a0language family has the\u00a0most speakers (2.9m), although\u00a0the Niger-Congo family includes the most languages (1,524).<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, check out our forest of language family trees\u00a0below. Please\u00a0click on the image to make it bigger and have a good look around; you may well discover languages you never knew existed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Please note: the forest doesn&#8217;t include every language in the world; it would have been difficult to fit all 6,000+ in! So if we&#8217;ve missed off your language, we&#8217;re really sorry and hope you&#8217;ll forgive us.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LangTrees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3908\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LangTrees-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"LangTrees\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" data-wp-pid=\"3908\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;d like to share the\u00a0image on your own blog or website, you&#8217;re more than welcome &#8211; please use the embed code below.\u00a0We also\u00a0include a free poster-sized copy of the language forest with all our CD-ROM and USB products (available from <a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\" target=\"_blank\">eurotalk.com<\/a>), with a world language map on the reverse.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy\u00a0exploring the language forest \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how different\u00a0languages in the world are related to each other? Some of the answers may be surprising&#8230; Did you know, for example, that the Finnish language isn&#8217;t directly related to Danish or Norwegian? It&#8217;s actually a Uralic language, in the same family as Hungarian and Estonian, whereas the others are North &#8230; <a title=\"The Language Forest: how are world languages related?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/the-language-forest-how-are-world-languages-related\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Language Forest: how are world languages related?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,3],"tags":[1153,1154,1155,1156,1157,52,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}