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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

Change in Urbanization

Refugees by Country of Origin

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

Class

Rank

Percentage of annual change

Class

Rank

People

4.07%79.3%65.6%44.0%12.9%10.8%23.3%42.4%14.3%37.0%4.51%
19.3%1.10%5.87%1.78%9.71%6.94%
5.33%24.7%
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