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The most common language family is __________.

A.
Afro-Asiatic
B.
Nilo-Saharan
C.
Sino-Tibetan
D.
Indo-European


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

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Answer: D

Explanation: There are over 6900 languages currently spoken in the world. These languages belong to 94 different language families, that is, groups of languages whose share their origins.

Indo-European languages are the most widely spoken languages: 44% of the world population, or 2.5 billion people, speak a language in the Indo-European family.

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the answer would be d.
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