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

Modern languages

Altaic, Koreanic and Japonic languages

Modern languages

Austroasiatic languages

Indo-European languages

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

Indigenous languages of the Americas

Sino-Tibetan languages

Modern languages
Ancient languages

Uralic languages

Other languages

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