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1. How do we define a language family?
2. What are the ten major branches of the Indo-European language family?
3. Of the branches that still comprise living languages, name one language each!
4. Where were the remaining, extinct branches spoken?
5. Name two language families from Africa and two from Asia!
6. What is the Swadesh list?
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