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What languages are not romance languages?

It's easier to list the families of languages that are *not* Romance languages. Romance languages are part of the Indo-European language family, which is the largest language family in the world.

Here are some examples of language families that are *not* Romance:

* Sino-Tibetan: This is the second-largest language family, including Mandarin Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese.

* Afro-Asiatic: This family includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and several languages of Africa.

* Niger-Congo: This is the largest language family in Africa, containing many languages of sub-Saharan Africa.

* Austronesian: This family includes languages spoken in Southeast Asia, Oceania, Madagascar, and parts of South America.

* Dravidian: This family includes languages spoken primarily in South India and Sri Lanka.

* Altaic: This family includes Turkish, Mongolian, and many languages spoken in Central Asia.

* Koreanic: This family includes the Korean language.

* Japanese: This is a language isolate, meaning it is not closely related to any other known language.

Within the Indo-European family, there are many branches that are not Romance:

* Germanic: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, etc.

* Slavic: Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, etc.

* Indo-Iranian: Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, etc.

* Celtic: Irish, Welsh, Gaelic, etc.

* Greek: Modern Greek

* Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian, Latvian, etc.

This is not an exhaustive list, as there are many other language families and branches in the world.

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