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Lecture 8：Comparison of the Chinese and English Languages 8.1. Brief Introduction to World Languages and Its Families. There are about 5000 languages in the world. According to statistics, those languages can be divided into a dozen of linguistic families, the leading families of the world languages are : (1). Indo-European family（印欧语系）, the biggest language family, covering most regions of Europe, America and Asia. It includes the two ancient languages Latin and Greek. Then English, German, Dutch and Swedish ( belonging to the German family), Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese ( belong