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World Language Families

WORLD LANGUAGE FAMILIES SEMITIC URALIAN ASIANITIC INDO-EUROPEAN Finno Ugric Samoyed Basque Caucasian Burushaki Arabic Hebrew Amharic Gemanic Romance Celtic ALTAIC HAMITIC Slavic Baltic .Berberic Tuareg Turkish Vietnamese Mon Khmer Mundar Cushitic 1 Greek Albanian Iranian Armenian Mongolic AUSTRONESIAN Dravidian Tungus Manchu Indonesian Polynesian Melanesian Indo-Arian Korean Paleosiberian Ket Japanese Tibetan Burnese Thal Chinese Eskimo Aleut Australian Aborigine Papua Negrito Andaman American Indian Hottentot Bushmen Language of intemediate zone between Bantu and Hamit-Semit Bantu SOURCE: http:/www2.johnabbott.qo.ca/-geoscience/MEWorldLanguageFamiliesMap.jpg, Goode's World Atlas, 21st Ed. Number of speakers Uncertainty: how estimates of the number of people speaking a language vary millions of speakers 1,200 1,100 1,000 Numbers of primary speakers: the top ten languages (% indicates percentage of world population speaking that language) 900 millions of speakers 800 700 600 1,100 20,7% 1,000 900 500 400 800 300 700 200 600 French German Japanese 100 500 400 rtugwese (Brazilian) Urdu nglish hinese 300 200 Hiphost Loweat imate 100 man panese artuguese (Brazillan) Urdu Language families millions of speakers 2,400 2.200 Lingua Franca Secondary speakers are people who speak one or more languages in addition to their first (home, mother or primary) language. The more secondary speakers a language has, the wider its influence in the world tends to be 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 millions of speakers French English Russian 1000 800 200 Portuguese (Brazilian) Arabic Spanish Chinese G00 175 400 150 Allaic Japane 200 Augt Dravio dust e 125 onesian dsiatic Congo Asiatic 100 0-European German Japanese 75 50 25 50% Number of countries using the languages as main medium of communication or as major lingua franca 100% 150% 200% percentage of secondary speakers in relation to primary speakers number of countries 120 110 100 CORE COUNTRIES are countries in which the language enjoys full legal and official status (at least de facto) and where it is normal language of communication, its speakers a majority or at least substantial minority. 90 80 70 60 Examples: Japanese in Japan; Spanish in Spain; English and French in Canada 50 20 apane Ch ese ter core trie eore countCountries rtuguese (Brazillan) French English anish FRINGE COUNTRIES OUTER CORE COUNTRIES are countries in wich the language has some official or legal status (variously described as auxiliary, associated, or recognized, etc) and where it is the language of a more or less sizeable but always influential minority. are countries in which the language has limited official or legal status and is understood and spoken by a minority. The language is infiuential as the language of trade and tourism, and is also usually the preferred foreign language of the young. Examples: English in Japan, French in Romania, Spanish in the USA Examples: English in India, French in Algeria SOURCE: http:Iwww.andaman.org/bookireprints/weberirep-weber.htm, 2008 Dying languages THREAT LEVEL Areas with a high number of languages in danger of extinction f many Linguists alamed at the unceasing extinction o indigenous languages identified five global hot spots where the problem is worst, led by northem Australia and a region of South America. A language dies every 14 days - by 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear. Severe High Medium Low EASTERN SIBERIA 23 languages Government policies have forced speakers of minority languages to use national and regional languages INORTHWEST PACIFIC PLATEAU 54 languages Only one person speaks Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on Oregon's Siletz reservation | SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 40 languages Yuchi, an American Indian language, spoken by five elderty I people at last count CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA 113 languages The Kallawaya use a secret language fell of information about medicinal plants NORTHERN AUSTRALIA 153 languages Three known speakers each of Magati Ke language and Yawuru language SOURCE: National Geographio infographic splashpressmedia LABS WORLD LANGUAGE FAMILIES SEMITIC URALIAN ASIANITIC INDO-EUROPEAN Finno Ugric Samoyed Basque Caucasian Burushaki Arabic Hebrew Amharic Gemanic Romance Celtic ALTAIC HAMITIC Slavic Baltic .Berberic Tuareg Turkish Vietnamese Mon Khmer Mundar Cushitic 1 Greek Albanian Iranian Armenian Mongolic AUSTRONESIAN Dravidian Tungus Manchu Indonesian Polynesian Melanesian Indo-Arian Korean Paleosiberian Ket Japanese Tibetan Burnese Thal Chinese Eskimo Aleut Australian Aborigine Papua Negrito Andaman American Indian Hottentot Bushmen Language of intemediate zone between Bantu and Hamit-Semit Bantu SOURCE: http:/www2.johnabbott.qo.ca/-geoscience/MEWorldLanguageFamiliesMap.jpg, Goode's World Atlas, 21st Ed. Number of speakers Uncertainty: how estimates of the number of people speaking a language vary millions of speakers 1,200 1,100 1,000 Numbers of primary speakers: the top ten languages (% indicates percentage of world population speaking that language) 900 millions of speakers 800 700 600 1,100 20,7% 1,000 900 500 400 800 300 700 200 600 French German Japanese 100 500 400 rtugwese (Brazilian) Urdu nglish hinese 300 200 Hiphost Loweat imate 100 man panese artuguese (Brazillan) Urdu Language families millions of speakers 2,400 2.200 Lingua Franca Secondary speakers are people who speak one or more languages in addition to their first (home, mother or primary) language. The more secondary speakers a language has, the wider its influence in the world tends to be 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 millions of speakers French English Russian 1000 800 200 Portuguese (Brazilian) Arabic Spanish Chinese G00 175 400 150 Allaic Japane 200 Augt Dravio dust e 125 onesian dsiatic Congo Asiatic 100 0-European German Japanese 75 50 25 50% Number of countries using the languages as main medium of communication or as major lingua franca 100% 150% 200% percentage of secondary speakers in relation to primary speakers number of countries 120 110 100 CORE COUNTRIES are countries in which the language enjoys full legal and official status (at least de facto) and where it is normal language of communication, its speakers a majority or at least substantial minority. 90 80 70 60 Examples: Japanese in Japan; Spanish in Spain; English and French in Canada 50 20 apane Ch ese ter core trie eore countCountries rtuguese (Brazillan) French English anish FRINGE COUNTRIES OUTER CORE COUNTRIES are countries in wich the language has some official or legal status (variously described as auxiliary, associated, or recognized, etc) and where it is the language of a more or less sizeable but always influential minority. are countries in which the language has limited official or legal status and is understood and spoken by a minority. The language is infiuential as the language of trade and tourism, and is also usually the preferred foreign language of the young. Examples: English in Japan, French in Romania, Spanish in the USA Examples: English in India, French in Algeria SOURCE: http:Iwww.andaman.org/bookireprints/weberirep-weber.htm, 2008 Dying languages THREAT LEVEL Areas with a high number of languages in danger of extinction f many Linguists alamed at the unceasing extinction o indigenous languages identified five global hot spots where the problem is worst, led by northem Australia and a region of South America. A language dies every 14 days - by 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear. Severe High Medium Low EASTERN SIBERIA 23 languages Government policies have forced speakers of minority languages to use national and regional languages INORTHWEST PACIFIC PLATEAU 54 languages Only one person speaks Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on Oregon's Siletz reservation | SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 40 languages Yuchi, an American Indian language, spoken by five elderty I people at last count CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA 113 languages The Kallawaya use a secret language fell of information about medicinal plants NORTHERN AUSTRALIA 153 languages Three known speakers each of Magati Ke language and Yawuru language SOURCE: National Geographio infographic splashpressmedia LABS WORLD LANGUAGE FAMILIES SEMITIC URALIAN ASIANITIC INDO-EUROPEAN Finno Ugric Samoyed Basque Caucasian Burushaki Arabic Hebrew Amharic Gemanic Romance Celtic ALTAIC HAMITIC Slavic Baltic .Berberic Tuareg Turkish Vietnamese Mon Khmer Mundar Cushitic 1 Greek Albanian Iranian Armenian Mongolic AUSTRONESIAN Dravidian Tungus Manchu Indonesian Polynesian Melanesian Indo-Arian Korean Paleosiberian Ket Japanese Tibetan Burnese Thal Chinese Eskimo Aleut Australian Aborigine Papua Negrito Andaman American Indian Hottentot Bushmen Language of intemediate zone between Bantu and Hamit-Semit Bantu SOURCE: http:/www2.johnabbott.qo.ca/-geoscience/MEWorldLanguageFamiliesMap.jpg, Goode's World Atlas, 21st Ed. Number of speakers Uncertainty: how estimates of the number of people speaking a language vary millions of speakers 1,200 1,100 1,000 Numbers of primary speakers: the top ten languages (% indicates percentage of world population speaking that language) 900 millions of speakers 800 700 600 1,100 20,7% 1,000 900 500 400 800 300 700 200 600 French German Japanese 100 500 400 rtugwese (Brazilian) Urdu nglish hinese 300 200 Hiphost Loweat imate 100 man panese artuguese (Brazillan) Urdu Language families millions of speakers 2,400 2.200 Lingua Franca Secondary speakers are people who speak one or more languages in addition to their first (home, mother or primary) language. The more secondary speakers a language has, the wider its influence in the world tends to be 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 millions of speakers French English Russian 1000 800 200 Portuguese (Brazilian) Arabic Spanish Chinese G00 175 400 150 Allaic Japane 200 Augt Dravio dust e 125 onesian dsiatic Congo Asiatic 100 0-European German Japanese 75 50 25 50% Number of countries using the languages as main medium of communication or as major lingua franca 100% 150% 200% percentage of secondary speakers in relation to primary speakers number of countries 120 110 100 CORE COUNTRIES are countries in which the language enjoys full legal and official status (at least de facto) and where it is normal language of communication, its speakers a majority or at least substantial minority. 90 80 70 60 Examples: Japanese in Japan; Spanish in Spain; English and French in Canada 50 20 apane Ch ese ter core trie eore countCountries rtuguese (Brazillan) French English anish FRINGE COUNTRIES OUTER CORE COUNTRIES are countries in wich the language has some official or legal status (variously described as auxiliary, associated, or recognized, etc) and where it is the language of a more or less sizeable but always influential minority. are countries in which the language has limited official or legal status and is understood and spoken by a minority. The language is infiuential as the language of trade and tourism, and is also usually the preferred foreign language of the young. Examples: English in Japan, French in Romania, Spanish in the USA Examples: English in India, French in Algeria SOURCE: http:Iwww.andaman.org/bookireprints/weberirep-weber.htm, 2008 Dying languages THREAT LEVEL Areas with a high number of languages in danger of extinction f many Linguists alamed at the unceasing extinction o indigenous languages identified five global hot spots where the problem is worst, led by northem Australia and a region of South America. A language dies every 14 days - by 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear. Severe High Medium Low EASTERN SIBERIA 23 languages Government policies have forced speakers of minority languages to use national and regional languages INORTHWEST PACIFIC PLATEAU 54 languages Only one person speaks Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on Oregon's Siletz reservation | SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 40 languages Yuchi, an American Indian language, spoken by five elderty I people at last count CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA 113 languages The Kallawaya use a secret language fell of information about medicinal plants NORTHERN AUSTRALIA 153 languages Three known speakers each of Magati Ke language and Yawuru language SOURCE: National Geographio infographic splashpressmedia LABS

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Language is not only a way to communicate and understand people but it is also a complex web of relations. This infographic looks at languages according to the number of speakers, the family to which...

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