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Language Families

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

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Language family distribution: Afro-Asiatic (purple) is in North Africa. Indo-European (blue) is in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Sino-Tibetan languages (brown) dominate China. Niger-Congo languages (dark purple) cover sub-Saharan Africa.

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Language Families

Major Territorial Acquisitions (U.S.)

Mongolian

Azeri

Karakalpak

Kazakh

Kyrgyz

Turkmen

Uyghur

Uzbek

Baluchi

Mountain Tajik (8 separate languages)

Pashtun

Russian

Tajik and Dari (Persian)

Other and uninhabited

Mandarin Chinese

Tibetan

Extent of U.S., 1803

Louisiana Purchase, 1803

West Florida, 1810–1813

British Cession, 1818

East Florida, 1819

Northern Maine, 1842

Texas Annexation, 1845

Oregon Country, 1846

Mexican Cession, 1848

Gadsden Purchase, 1853

Alaska, 1867

Hawaii, 1898

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19.3%1.10%5.87%1.78%9.71%6.94%
5.33%24.7%
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