Chapter 13 Language Change over Time: Historical Linguistics
Do Living Languages Always Change?
Language Families and the Indo-European Family
How to Reconstruct the Linguistic Past
Polynesian and Pacific Background
Polynesian Languages and Their History
Comparative Reconstruction
Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Vocabulary
Historical Linguistics and Prehistory
What Are the Language Families of the World?
Counting Speakers and Languages
The Indo-European Family
The Sino-Tibetan Family
The Austronesian Family
The Afroasiatic Family
The Three Major Language Families of Sub-Saharan Africa
Other Language Families of Asia and Europe
Native American Languages
Languages of Aboriginal Australia
Papuan Languages
Nostratic Macrofamily
Languages in Contact
Multilingualism