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Of particular use to researchers is the [http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=family summary of language usages by family and country]. Other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spoken_languages reference information on languages by country is available from wikipedia].
The Ethnologue data was used to determine the dominant contemporary language family for each [[UN GeoRegion Codes | United Nations recognised country]] ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt]). The language families were then grouped in 'pseudo-families'. The pseudo-families are useful but strictly 'illegimate' unit of aggregation. Ethnologue recognizes six dominant top-level language families and a total of 94 contemporary language families. Of these, we group the 40 most used languages in 8 pseudo-families ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt] ) for our classification purposes.
The 8 pseudo-families and the 40 families are:
