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Prākrta Bhāṣā : 9
Table 1 : Language Families and their characteristics.
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3 (a) Africa Zone 1. Sematic-Hematic Aggl. (a) Egypt, Iraq, Arab, (Hebrew, Arabic,
Syria, Algeria, Morocco Sumerian, Egyptian,
(b) Libya, Somaliland, Somali etc.)
Ethiopia 2. Vantu
Aggl. Central and South (about 150 languages )
Africa, Tanzania 3. Sudanese
Analytic African Countries surrou( about 400 languages) Isolating nding HM Zone 4. Bushman
Bushman area of South
Africa (b) Euresian Zone 1. Dravidian
Aggl. South, East and Central ( Tamil, Telugu, Kannada,
India, Baluch. Malayalam, Gond, Tulu etc.) 2. Chinese
Isolating China, Tibbet, Burma, ( Chinese, Thai, Bur
Thailand, etc. mese, Tibbetan, etc.) 3. Ural-altaic
Aggl. Finland, Hungary, (Finish, Hungarian, Turkish, Turkey, Mongolia, etc.
Mongolian, Russian, etc.) 4. Caucasian
Aggl. Caucasians area (Georgian, Kavadian ) 5. Japanese-Korean
Aggl. Japan, Korea, Nearby (Japanese, Korean )
Islands 6. Malay-Polynesian Aggl. SE Asia, New Zealand, ( Languages of concerned
Fiji, Hawai, Philip., countries )
Formosa, etc. 7. Austro-Asiatic
Aggl.
East India, Cambodia, (Santhali, Mundali,
• Burma, South India Kole, etc.)
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