The languages discussed here are what are usually called the Indo- European family; similar family trees could be drawn for the Semitic languages, Sino- Tibetan, Japanese, Bantu, Malayo- Polynesian, and so on. Each is a distinct phylum; although there may be word-borrowing among them, lexicon is considered less important in the classification of languages than structure and grammar.
The languages discussed here are from the Indo- European family; similar to the Semitic languages, Sino- Tibetan, Japanese, Bantu, Malayo- Polynesian, and so on. Although there is word-borrowing, lexicon is considered less important for language classification than structure and grammar.