Language Families
Central AsiaCulturalThe predominant language families of Central Asia. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.
natureLanguage family distribution: Afro-Asiatic (purple) is in North Africa. Indo-European (blue) is in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Sino-Tibetan languages (brown) dominate China. Niger-Congo languages (dark purple) cover sub-Saharan Africa.
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Mongolian | Azeri | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kyrgyz | Turkmen | Uyghur | Uzbek | Baluchi | Mountain Tajik (8 separate languages) | Pashtun | Russian | Tajik and Dari (Persian) | Other and uninhabited | Mandarin Chinese | Tibetan | |
| 4.07% | 79.3% | 65.6% | 44.0% | 12.9% | 10.8% | 23.3% | 42.4% | 14.3% | 37.0% | 4.51% | ||||||
| 19.3% | 1.10% | 5.87% | 1.78% | 9.71% | 6.94% | |||||||||||
| 5.33% | 24.7% | |||||||||||||||
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