Mauritania

None

Gabon

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Côte d'Ivoire

Republic of the Congo

Djibouti

Ghana

Gambia

Equatorial Guinea

Liberia

Lesotho

Malawi

Namibia

Niger

Senegal

Sierra Leone

eSwatini

Togo

Tanzania

Zambia

Democratic Republic of Congo

Eritrea

Guinea-Bissau

Mali

Sudan

Zimbabwe

Burundi

Burkina Faso

Central African Republic

Cameroon

Ethiopia

Guinea

Kenya

Madagascar

Mozambique

Nigeria

Rwanda

Somalia

Chad

Uganda

South Africa

South Sudan

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan African languages: Afro-Asiatic (blue-green) north, Nilo-Saharan (light orange) central, Niger-Congo (blue) east coast, Indo-European (light blue) west South Africa, south Namibia, Khoisan (dark orange) Namibia, Botswana, Austronesian (yellow) Madagascar.

Languages of Africa. The displayed areas indicate predominance, not exclusivity.

African Languages

nature

Seychelles

Caribbean

Mauritius

A map highlights the Southern African Development Community members such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Madagascar highlighted in light green.

Member states of the Southern African Development Community, an organization founded in 1980 to enhance economic cooperation among its members

Countries

SADC

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Members

Georgia

Armenia

Russia

Eurasia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Europe

A map showing the distribution of languages in the Russian domain.

Languages within the Russian domain

Languages

The language map for the Russian Domain displays both individual languages as well as language families. Russian is spoken throughout Russia, particularly in the western two-thirds of the country and along the southern border with China. It also is found in eastern and Southern Ukraine. Belorussian is spoken in Belarus. Ukrainian is spoken in Ukraine and a small portion of western Russia near the Ukrainian border. Armenia is spoken in Armenia. Romanian is spoken in Moldova. Altaic languages dominate Siberia and are found in pockets in western Russia, including an area east of Moscow near the southern Ural Mountains and west of the Caspian Sea. Caucasian languages are spoken in the Caucasus Mountains of extreme southern Russia, Georgia, and northwestern Armenia. Eskimo-Aleut languages are spoken in extreme eastern Siberia and Russia’s Arctic islands. Finno-Ugric languages are spoken along the border with Finland along the Arctic coast of western Russia, and throughout the West Siberian Lowland.

African Languages						Southern African Development Community (SADC) Members	Languages - Russian Domain
Afro-Asiatic	Austronesian	Indo-European	Khoisan	Niger-Congo	Nilo-Saharan	Value	Altaic	Armenian	Belorussian	Caucasian	Eskimo-Aleut and other	Finno-Ugric	Romanian	Russian	Russian and Ukrainian	Ukrainian

96.9%				2.94%
55.0%	99.1%	26.0%	22.3%	62.2%	18.8%
							38.9%	60.7%		78.4%	7.69%	7.12%		3.75%
									99.6%				85.4%		21.5%	77.8%