Language Families
East AsiaCulturalThe predominant language families of East Asia. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.
natureDistribution of language families: Indo-European in North and South America (blue), Niger-Congo in Sub-Saharan Africa (purple), Afro-Asiatic in North Africa and Middle East (black), Sino-Tibetan in China (brown), and Altaic in Central Asia (orange).
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Mongolian | Uigur and other Turkic languages | Tribal languages of eastern Taiwan | Japanese | Korean | Gan | Mandarin | Min (including Fujianese and Taiwanese) | Tibetan | Wu (including Shanghaiese) | Xiang | Yue (Cantonese) | Zhuang | |
| 3.96% | 1.10% | 26.7% | 60.3% | 57.5% | 1.53% | 56.9% | 72.3% | 18.5% | 1.52% | 2.03% | 3.31% | 1.42% | |
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