| Unlike most languages of Pakistan, it belongs to the Dravidian language family. |
| They speak a dialect of Karachay-Balkar, which belongs to the Kypchak division of the Uralo-Altaic language family. |
| This was predicted by Jane decades ago based on her glottochronological work with Tepiman and the larger Uto-Aztecan language family. |
| Some of them are clearly members of the Austronesian language family, the family that also includes such languages as Malay, Hawaiian, and Maori. |
| The Athabaskan language family is one of three families within the Na-Dene language phylum. |
| The Nilo-Saharan super language family accounts for about 2 percent of the population, and these languages are spoken near the Sudanese border. |
