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List of ancestor languages

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This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.

Afro-Asiatic languages

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Modern languages

Altaic, Koreanic and Japonic languages

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Modern languages

Austroasiatic languages

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Indo-European languages

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Modern European languages
Languages of the Near East and India
Ancient languages

Indigenous languages of the Americas

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Sino-Tibetan languages

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Modern languages
Ancient languages

Uralic languages

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Other languages

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References

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