6760208865 | Indo- European | Most widely used language family; predominant in Europe, South Asia, North America, and Latin America | 0 | |
6760208866 | Sino- Tibetan | Spoken in South East Asia; Mandarin is most widely used language; written with logograms (symbols) | 1 | |
6760208867 | Austronesian | Spoken in lower South East Asia (islands), mostly Indonesia; main language is Javanese | 2 | |
6760208868 | Austro-Asiatic | Spoken in a small portion of South East Asia; most spoken language is Vietnamese (written with Roman alphabet) | 3 | |
6760208869 | Tai Kadai | Spoken in Thailand and neighboring portions of China | 4 | |
6760208870 | Japanese | Spoken in Japan; written with Chinese logograms and phonetic logograms | 5 | |
6760208871 | Korean | Spoken in Korea; written with hankul; derived from Chinese words | 6 | |
6760208872 | Afro-Asiatic | Spoken in North Africa and Southwest Asia; Arabic and Hebrew are major languages | 7 | |
6760208873 | Altaic | Spoken in South West Africa; Turkish is a major language | 8 | |
6760208874 | Uralic | Spoken by Estonia, Finland, Hungary | 9 | |
6760208875 | Niger- Congo | Spoken in North Central Africa; Spoke by more than 95% of Sub-Saharan Africa; major language is Swahili | 10 | |
6760208876 | Khoisan | Spoken in low South West Africa; the use of clicking sounds | 11 |
AP Human Geography Language Families Flashcards
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