Jessica Chastain in a scene from âMollyâs Game.â Credit STX Entertainment Jessica Chastain received news of her Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a dramatic feature while promoting that film, âMollyâs Game,â in Paris. Directed by Aaron Sorkin, the film tells the true story of Molly Bloom, a world-class skier who began running high-stakes, celebrity-magnet poker games.
A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family [image]
Language families. The study of the origins of languages and their classification into families is traditionally known as philology. For various reasons it is not possible to be precise about the number of languages in the world, but most philologists agree that there are between 6,000 - 7,000 living languages. These languages are divided into about 100 language families; the exact number is dependent on the classification paradigm.