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.
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 | Areas of serious concern | Areas of some concern | Stable terrain | Nonvegetated land | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.9% | 3.98% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 31.3% | 20.7% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4.07% | 79.3% | 65.6% | 44.0% | 12.9% | 10.8% | 23.3% | 42.4% | 14.3% | 37.0% | 4.51% | 3.03% | 22.0% | 8.18% | 55.1% | ||||||
| 19.3% | 1.10% | 5.87% | 1.78% | 9.71% | 6.94% | 3.55% | 14.0% | 13.0% | 14.5% | |||||||||||
| 5.33% | 24.7% | 7.19% | 2.27% | 71.3% | ||||||||||||||||
| 31.7% | 43.8% | 19.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 17.6% | 19.7% | 9.89% | 10.8% | |||||||||||||||||
| 31.2% | 4.72% | 3.87% | 95.3% | |||||||||||||||||
| 8.43% | 2.94% | 1.97% | 8.56% | |||||||||||||||||
| 5.14% | 21.1% | 3.46% | 6.72% | |||||||||||||||||
| 41.1% | 31.7% | 1.12% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 31.6% | 38.1% | 40.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 36.7% | 40.0% | 20.2% | 31.2% | |||||||||||||||||
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