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“Linguistic classification” as a book category covers how languages and their varieties are grouped, compared, and related. Titles in this area explain genetic (historical) relationships that organize languages into families and subfamilies; typological groupings based on shared structures such as word order, morphology, and phonology; and areal classifications that trace features spread through contact across regions (Sprachbünde). The category includes global surveys of language families, typology handbooks and atlases, case studies of specific families and dialect continua, works on creoles and mixed languages, and debates over contested groupings. It also features methodological guides—from the comparative method to computational phylogenetics and databases—along with discussions of naming standards, language documentation, and endangerment. Suitable for students, educators, and researchers, these books range from accessible introductions to specialized monographs and reference works.

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