There are over 6,000 different languages in the world. Each language is associated with a language family that groups together languages that have characteristics in common. This map shows where there language families are in the world.
Within language families, there are usually many branches that then develop into individual languages. The Indo-European branches of the language tree account for approximately 45% of the world's speakers. The Indo-European family accounts for only 6% of the languages in the world.