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 | Percent | Selected Native Land Reserves | Arctic Cordillera | Tundra | Taiga | Hudson Plain | Boreal forests | Northwestern forested mountains | Marine west coast forest | Eastern temperate forests | Great Plains | Deserts and steppes | Mediterranean California | Southern semi-arid highlands | Temperate sierras | Tropical wet forests | Class | Rank | Percentage of forested land | |
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31.6% | 8.03% | 36.0% | 1.90% | 1.96% | 6.84% | 22.1% | 11.9% | 32.1% | 29.3% | 5.59% | 34.8% | 38.2% | 26.9% | 39.7% | 6.89% | 11.3% | 14.5% | |||||||