There are approximately 6,500 languages spoken on earth today.
Those who study languages - linguists, for ease of comprehension, analysis, study, and modeling have been able to categorize these languages into groups.
The criteria used are:
- Diachronic Relationship (evolution through time and therefore age)
- Protolanguage relationship ( that is relatedness to an older parent language from which several others derive, hence Origin) and
- The Similarity of Alphabets / Characters
French, Spanish Romanian, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Igbo languages share similar alphabetic characters and are therefore grouped under the Latin Script system.
Authoritative sources hold the current number of Language Families to be 147 in number. Of that number, 14 of them are classed as major language families. They are:
- Tupian
- Dravidian
- Austroasiatic
- Tai-kadai
- Nilo-Saharan
- Oto-manguean
- Afro-Asiatic
- Indo-European
- Asutralian
- Sino-Tibetan
- Trans-New Guinea
- Austronesian
- Niger-Congo
- Nulcear - Trans - New Guinea
Hence we can rightly say that option B is the correct answer.
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