All Language Families with a Map

Isolates, creoles, pidgins, and unclassified languages are not included.

The distinctions between families leans conservative (meaning no Nilo-Saharan) but is ultimately still arbitrary.

Extinct families are not included, with the exception of language families indigenous to areas that have undergone colonisation, where the most recent pre-contact distribution of languages is shown on the map.

Click the map to zoom.