Wika; Araling Panlipunan 8

Itinuturing ang wika bilang kaluluwa ng isang kultura. Nagbibigay ito ng
pagkakakilanlan o identidad sa mga taong kabilang sa isang pangkat. May 7,105
buhay na wika sa daigdig na ginagamit ng mahigit 6,200,000,000 katao.
Nakapaloob ang mga wikang ito sa tinatawag na language family o mga wikang
magkakaugnay at may iisang pinag-ugatan. Tinatayang may 136 language family
sa buong daigdig. Ang mga pamilya ng wikang ito ay nagsasanga-sanga sa iba
pang wikang ginagamit sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng daigdig.

Afro-Asiatic
Algeria, Bahrain, Cameroon, Chad,
Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Kenya, Libya, Mali, Malta,
Mauritania, Morocco, Niger,
Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi
Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,
Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
Uzbekistan, at Yemen

Austronesian

Brunei, Cambodia, Chile, China,
Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji,
French Polynesia, Guam,
Indonesia, Kiribati, Madagascar,
Austronesian 1,221 5.55
Malaysia, Marshall Islands,
Mayotte, Micronesia, Myanmar,
Nauru, New Caledonia, New
Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana
Islands, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, Philippines, Samoa,
Solomon Islands, Suriname,
Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau, Tonga,
Tuvalu, United States, Vanuatu,
Viet Nam, Wallis at Futuna

Indo-European 

Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia,

Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, 

Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and 

Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, 

Canada, China, Croatia, Czech 

Republic, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, 

France, Germany, Greece, 

Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, 

Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Latvia, 

Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mace-

donia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, 

Netherlands, Norway, Oman, 

Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, 

Romania, Russian Federation, 

Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South 

Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, 

Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, 

Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, 

United States, Vatican State, at 

Venezuela

Niger-Congo

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina 

Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central
African Republic, Chad, Comoros,
Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-
Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,
Malawi, Mali, Mayotte,
Mozambique, Namibia, Niger,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Somalia, South Africa,
South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland,
Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia,
at Zimbabwe

Sino-Tibetan

Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India,

Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar,

Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, at Viet 

Nam