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Language Families

Central AsiaCultural

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

nature

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

British Conquest of India

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

British annexation 1753–1805

British annexation after 1805

Dependent state

Minor dependent state

Under British supervision, later annexed

Portuguese territory

French territory

4.07%79.3%65.6%44.0%12.9%10.8%23.3%42.4%14.3%37.0%4.51%
5.33%24.7%
19.3%1.10%5.87%1.78%9.71%6.94%0.436%
28.7%33.9%31.7%11.9%11.6%0.112%0.771%
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