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).
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 | Class | Rank | US dollars | Approximate Form and Extent of Outcrop of Carbonate Rocks | Arctic Cordillera | Tundra | Taiga | Hudson Plain | Boreal forests | Northwestern forested mountains | Eastern temperate forests | Great Plains | Deserts and steppes | Mediterranean California | Southern semi-arid highlands | Temperate sierras | Tropical dry forests | Tropical wet forests | |
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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% | 4.32% | ||||||||||||||||||
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17.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2.26% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28.9% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.02% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6.76% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.31% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4.46% | 1.08% | 3.57% | 4.43% | 2.73% | 12.4% | 5.44% | 22.2% | 10.2% | 1.91% | 1.48% | 4.09% | 2.82% | 1.51% | 11.2% |