| INDIC | Showing half a group of languages |
| ATHABASCAN | A traveller's first hour with a book, taking a look at a group of languages |
| AKAN | It's a lake in Japan that shares a name with a group of languages in Africa. (Which is simply a coincidence.) |
| ROMANCE | A group of languages descended from Latin, including Catalan, Italian and Provencal; or, a medieval tale of adventure and heroism written in one of these vernaculars (7) |
| KWA | A branch of a group of languages spoken in W Africa (3) |
| NGUNI | A group of languages of southern Africa (5) |
| BANTU | A group of languages of Africa (5) |
| CELTIC | Of a group of languages such as Gaelic and Welsh |
| ELVISH | A group of languages of Middle-earth created by fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien (6) |
| NILOTIC | A group of languages of East Africa including Luo, Dinka and Masai |
| INDICIA | Signs I associated at first with a group of languages |
| HINDUSTANI | Thus, Indian forms a group of languages (10) |
| GERMANIC | Some younger man I consulted about a group of languages (8) |
| ARYAN | Although this word was used to describe the specious Nazi 'master race' concept, in linguistics this simply refers to a group of languages from the Subcontinent |
| BRANCH | One of a number of boughs of a tree; or, by extension, a conceptual subdivision of a department, family, group of languages, subject etc (6) |
| SATEM | Group of languages as met with in difficulties (5) |
| SEMITIC | Group of languages using signs and symbols (except O) |
| ITALIC | Group of languages more oblique than Roman |
| INDOARYAN | Large group of languages |
| INDICATOR | Signal group of languages with eighteen letters |
