A primary language family is a group of languages that share a common ancestral language and have similar linguistic characteristics. These language families are used to classify and study different languages.
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Indo-European: The largest primary language family in the world, including languages like English, Spanish, German, French, and Russian.
Uralic: A primary language family consisting of languages spoken in Northern Europe and Siberia, such as Finnish and Hungarian.
Altaic: A proposed but controversial primary language family that includes Turkish, Mongolian, and Korean among others.