Language Families
WorldCulturalThe world's major language families. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.
natureIndo-European (blue): Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania. Africa: Afro-Asiatic (light blue), Niger-Congo (purple), Nilo-Saharan (light green). Asia: Sino-Tibetan (brown), Dravidian (green), Altaic (blue). Australia: Indo-European, Aboriginal (bright yellow).
Afro-Asiatic | Altaic | Amerindian and Indo-European | Austro-Asiatic | Austronesian | Basque | Caucasian | Dravidian | Eskimo-Aleut | Indo-European | Japanese | Khoisan | Korean | Niger-Congo | Nilo-Saharan | Paleo-Siberian | Papuan | Sino-Tibetan | Tai-Kadai | Uralic | Value | Value | 0-5 | 5-10 | 10-20 | 20-40 | 40-80 | Over 80 | |
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2.96% | 39.1% | 86.3% | 13.9% | 40.4% | 37.5% | 13.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79.9% | 47.4% | 34.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62.1% | 46.5% | 55.2% | 43.1% | 8.11% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44.5% | 81.0% | 4.67% | 96.1% | 62.7% | 1.37% | 23.2% | 18.2% | 25.6% | 28.5% | 13.5% | 1.00% | |||||||||||||||||
2.05% | 38.5% | 74.5% | 4.57% | 4.59% | 2.87% | 32.9% | 58.1% | 4.34% | ||||||||||||||||||||
97.2% | 4.35% | 1.49% | 61.0% | 39.2% | 2.76% | 24.1% | 75.6% | 15.5% | 9.48% | |||||||||||||||||||
24.0% | 24.7% | 18.5% | 17.4% | 25.1% | 23.6% | 29.0% | 17.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||
100% | 3.88% | 5.61% | 65.9% | 48.2% | 32.9% | 12.3% | 4.30% | 73.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||
4.98% | 7.29% | 41.8% | 12.1% | 29.4% | 35.2% | 19.4% | 13.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||
17.1% | 76.1% | 5.05% | 9.50% | 12.0% | 16.1% | 31.8% | 33.9% | 7.81% | ||||||||||||||||||||
31.7% | 8.18% | 7.63% | 16.8% | 49.9% | 39.0% | 1.76% | 16.5% | 69.4% | 9.30% | |||||||||||||||||||
80.3% | 30.5% | 51.4% | 20.1% | 85.0% | 16.6% | 9.15% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56.6% | 99.8% | 18.8% | 27.4% | 70.9% | 27.4% | 45.5% | 20.4% | 19.3% | 34.3% | 23.7% | 12.5% |
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