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 | Moderate | High | Very High | Desert - Dry Regions | |
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1.86% | |||||||||||||||||
4.58% | 2.91% | 9.51% | 4.95% | ||||||||||||||
2.52% | 7.35% | 30.8% | 59.1% | ||||||||||||||
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% | 2.31% | 30.5% | |||
5.18% | 5.94% | 1.92% | 1.05% | ||||||||||||||
16.5% | 11.9% | 10.8% | |||||||||||||||
11.3% | 5.72% | 4.10% | 12.2% | ||||||||||||||
1.22% | 5.24% | 92.9% | |||||||||||||||
5.96% | 1.46% | 11.7% | 9.60% | ||||||||||||||
19.6% | 5.24% | 9.49% | 20.7% | ||||||||||||||
19.0% | 2.57% | 2.44% | |||||||||||||||
8.30% | 16.0% | 15.2% | 72.0% | ||||||||||||||
21.4% | 16.2% | 6.96% | 47.0% |
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