Types of Language Families: Language is the core tool humans use to share ideas, emotions, and culture. Linguists group individual languages into “families” based on shared ancestry, similar to a ...

Genetically, these languages belong to several different language families, but the most common ones, Guan (官), Min (閩), Yue (粵), sometimes loosely called “Cantonese”), Hakka and a few others, belong ...