Major Language Families in Asia-Pacific Issued: 01 May 2011
Major language families Legend This map uses a dataset derived from the Fifteenth Edition of the !\ Country capital publication 'Ethnologue: Languages of the World'. The publication !( Territory capital identifies more than 3,200 languages in the Asia Pacific region in 28 !\ ULAANBAATAR LANGUAGE major linguistic families. Among these languages is Mandarin, spoken MONGOLIA ISOLATE Country Naming Convention (KOREAN) by almost 900 million people predominantly in China, while Papua UN MEMBER STATE ALTAIC New Guinea is home to over 800 languages, of which more than 350 Territory or Associated State DPRK are spoken by less than 1,000 people. !\ BEIJING JAPANESE JAMMU & !\ PYONGYANG DISPUTED TERRITORY KASHMIR !\SEOUL JAPAN This map depicts the traditional linguistic homelands of each language AKSAI CHINA REP. OF KOREA !\ TOKYO CHIN family. Populations away from their homelands are not mapped and
ARUNASHAL SINO-TIBETAN polygons are not provided for languages which are considered PRADESH widespread in a country, e.g. where the language polygon would be NEPAL NEW DELHI !\ BHUTAN essentially identical to the country boundary. KATHMANDU !\ !\ THIMPHU INDO-EUROPEAN HMONG-MIEN !( TAIPEI Language data are from the World Language Mapping System !\ DHAKA Taiwan (WLMS) and are available from GMI (http://www.gmi.org/wlms/) INDIA BANGLADESH Province of China AFRO-ASIATIC MYANMAR !\ HANOI LAO PDR Northern Mariana LANGUAGE FAMILY Islands (U.S.) !\ VIENTIANE Afro-Asiatic East Papuan Sepik-Ramu YANGON !\ THAILAND Altaic Geelvink Bay Sino-Tibetan !(SAIPAN TAI-KADAI !\MANILA Map Doc Name: OCHA_ROAP_Language_v6_110519 BANGKOK Amto-Musan Hmong-Mien Sko !\ AGANA !( Creation Date: CAMBODIA Guam (U.S.) 19 May 2011 DRAVIDIAN Andamanese Indo-European Tai-Kadai !\ PHNOM PENH PHILIPPINES Projection/Datum: Behrmann/WGS84 Australian Japanese Torricelli ANDAMANESE VIET NAM MARSHALL ISLANDS Web Resources: http://ochaonline.un.org/roap Austro-Asiatic Kwomtari-Baibai Trans-New Guinea BRUNEI Austronesian Language Isolate Unclassified SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA KOROR !\ PALIKIR MAJURO !\ KOTTE !\ AUSTRO-ASIATIC DARUSSALAM !\ 0 1,000 2,000 PALAU Bayono-Awbono Left May West Papuan SRI LANKA !\ BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN MICRONESIA (FEDERATED STATES OF) !\ MALE M A L A Y S I A Dravidian Lower Mamberamo Kilometers !\ KUALA LUMPUR WEST PAPUAN EAST BIRD'S HEAD MALDIVES East Bird's Head Mixed Language !\ SINGAPORE LOWER MAMBERAMO TARAWA !\ SINGAPORE Map data source(s): UN Cartographic Section, FAO, Global Discovery, World GEELVINK BAY YAREN !\ AUSTRONESIAN Language Mapping System SKO NAURU KIRIBATI KWOMTARI-BAIBAI I N D O N E S I A Disclaimers: TORRICELLI PAPUA The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any !\ JAKARTA NEW TRANS-NEW GUINEA TUVALU opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the GUINEA DILI EAST PAPUAN United Nations concerning the legal status of any !\ FUNAFUTI!\ TOKELAU (N.Z.) country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or TIMOR-LESTE !\ !\ HONIARA !( !( Christmas PORT MORESBY concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Cocos (Keeling) Island (Aus.) BAYONO-AWBONO SOLOMON ISLANDS Wallis & islands (Aus.) !( Futunu (Fra.) SAMOA SEPIK-RAMU MATU UTU !( APIA !\!( LEFT MAY PAGO PAGO AMERICAN VANUATU FIJI SAMOA (U.S.) Cook AMTO-MUSAN Islands !\ PORT-VILA !( PAPEETE !\ SUVA (N.Z.) !( ALOFI French Polynesia (Fra.) United Nations Office for the Coordination Niue (N.Z.) of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) NUKU'ALOFA !\ !( AVARUA NOUMÉA !( Regional Office for Asia Pacific (ROAP) TONGA Pitcairn (U.K.) Executive Suite, 2nd Floor, New Caledonia (Fra.) UNCC Building, Rajdamnern Nok Ave, AUSTRALIA ADAMSTOWN !( Bangkok 10200, Thaniland
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