Pie Chart of Major Language Families by Speakers

About this example

Of about 7,000 documented languages, most fall into a handful of large families. Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan together account for nearly two-thirds of all human speakers.

The data

• Indo-European — 3200 million speakers
• Sino-Tibetan — 1400 million speakers
• Niger-Congo — 700 million speakers
• Afro-Asiatic — 600 million speakers
• Austronesian — 350 million speakers
• Dravidian — 250 million speakers
• Other — 500 million speakers

Source

Ethnologue (SIL International).

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