Languages of the World

 Languages can be differentiated based on various aspects:

• Families - The languages having a common ancestor are grouped into language families.
  
  • Indo-Aryan (Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya, Haryanvi...)
  • Dravidian (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Konkani, Tulu…)
  • Germanic (German, Dutch, English, Scots, Dutch…)
  • Slavic (Russian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Polish...)
  • Celtic (Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic…)
  • Romance (Italian, French, Spanish…)
  • Sino-Tibetan (Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese, Tibetan, Burmese…)

•  Scripts - Different languages follow different scripts.

• Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati…)
• Latin (English, Spanish, German...)
• Arabic (Arabic, Persian, Urdu…)
• Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian…)

•  Inflection

• Analytic - few inflections e.g. English
• Isolation -  close to no inflections e.g. Mandarin
• Synthetic - many inflections
• Agglutinative - a single inflection conveys only a single grammatical category e.g. Finnish; English (goes → third person, am → first person), Malayalam
• Polysynthetic
• Fusional - a single inflection conveys multiple grammatical categories e.g. Italian future tense