Old World Language Families

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This Tree Beautifully Reveals The Relationships Between Languages

 

All of the languages illustrated here stem from subcategories of either Indo-European or Uralic origin, and upon closer inspection many fascinating links are revealed. One of the most surprising relationships is how distinct Finnish is from the other Scandinavian languages that share Germanic roots.