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AP Human Geography Language Families Flashcards

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6760208865Indo- EuropeanMost widely used language family; predominant in Europe, South Asia, North America, and Latin America0
6760208866Sino- TibetanSpoken in South East Asia; Mandarin is most widely used language; written with logograms (symbols)1
6760208867AustronesianSpoken in lower South East Asia (islands), mostly Indonesia; main language is Javanese2
6760208868Austro-AsiaticSpoken in a small portion of South East Asia; most spoken language is Vietnamese (written with Roman alphabet)3
6760208869Tai KadaiSpoken in Thailand and neighboring portions of China4
6760208870JapaneseSpoken in Japan; written with Chinese logograms and phonetic logograms5
6760208871KoreanSpoken in Korea; written with hankul; derived from Chinese words6
6760208872Afro-AsiaticSpoken in North Africa and Southwest Asia; Arabic and Hebrew are major languages7
6760208873AltaicSpoken in South West Africa; Turkish is a major language8
6760208874UralicSpoken by Estonia, Finland, Hungary9
6760208875Niger- CongoSpoken in North Central Africa; Spoke by more than 95% of Sub-Saharan Africa; major language is Swahili10
6760208876KhoisanSpoken in low South West Africa; the use of clicking sounds11

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