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Language Families

East AsiaCultural

The predominant language families of East Asia. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

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Distribution 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).

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Language Families

Population Younger than Age 15

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

Percent

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%
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