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).
Amerindian and Indo-European | Eskimo-Aleut | Indo-European | Class | Rank | Live births per 1,000 people | Class | Rank | Percent | ALASKA BOREAL INTERIOR | ALASKA TUNDRA | ARCTIC CORDILLERA | ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS | BOREAL CORDILLERA | BOREAL PLAIN | BROOKS RANGE TUNDRA | CENTRAL USA PLAINS | COLD DESERTS | EVERGLADES | HUDSON PLAIN | MARINE WEST COAST FOREST | MEDITERRANEAN CALIFORNIA | MISSISSIPPI ALLUVIAL AND SOUTHEAST USA COASTAL PLAINS | MIXED WOOD PLAINS | MIXED WOOD SHIELD | NORTHERN ARCTIC | OZARK/OUACHITA-APPALACHIAN FORESTS | SOFTWOOD SHIELD | SOUTH CENTRAL SEMIARID PRAIRIES | SOUTHEASTERN USA PLAINS | SOUTHERN ARCTIC | TAIGA CORDILLERA | TAIGA PLAIN | TAIGA SHIELD | TEMPERATE PRAIRIES | TEXAS-LOUISIANA COASTAL PLAIN | UPPER GILA MOUNTAINS | WARM DESERTS | WEST-CENTRAL SEMIARID PRAIRIES | WESTERN CORDILLERA | WESTERN SIERRA MADRE PIEDMONT | 0 to 2°C | 3 to 5°C | 6 to 8°C | 9 to 11°C | 12 to 14°C | 15 to 17°C | 18 to 20°C | 21 to 23°C | 24 to 26°C | 27 to 29°C | over 30°C | |
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| 31.6% | 8.03% | 36.0% | 2 | 8 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1.3333333333333333 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1.3333333333333333 | 1 | 14.8% | 25.4% | 10.6% | 12.2% | 37.9% | 33.5% | 14.5% | 25.6% | 56.1% | 14.6% | 16.4% | |||||||