中英雙語話中國民風民俗 第82期:漢語言大家庭
Chinese Language Families
漢語言大家庭The languages in China fall into five language families ： Han-Tibetan, Altaic ,Austro-Asiatic, Malyo-Polynesian and Indo-European. The first one is the biggest,with three major branches and dozens of languages. The three branches are: Zhuang-Dong, Tibeto-Burman and Miao-Yao. The second largest family is Altaic with two major branches: Turkic and Mongol-Tungus. This family of languages is dispersed across the north of China. The big ones are; Mongolian, Uighur, Kazak, Kyrgyz, Uzbek,Manchu and Korean. There are just three languages in the Austro-Asiatic family. They areWa, Blang and Deang. All of them are on the southwestern border. The Malyo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the natives on the Taiwan Island. The Indo-European is the smallest family with only two languages ：Russian and Tajik.
中國的語言分爲五大語系：漢藏語系，阿爾泰語系，南亞語系，馬來-波利尼西亞語系和印歐語系。第一個是最大的，有三個主要的分支機構和幾十種語言。這三大分支分別是：壯侗族，藏緬語族，苗瑤族。第二個最大的家族是阿爾泰語系的兩個主要分支：突厥和蒙古 - 通古斯。這個系列的語言在中國北部被分散。最大的是，蒙古族，維吾爾族，哈薩克族，吉爾吉斯族，烏茲別克族，滿族和韓族。只有三種語言在南亞語系。他們是佤族，布朗族和德昂族。他們都在西南邊陲。馬來-波利尼西亞語是由臺灣島內的當地人經常使用。印歐語系是最小的家庭，只有兩種語言：俄羅斯語和塔吉克斯坦語。
