World Language Map

Iroquoian languages map

6 Iroquoian languages are on the map, most of them in United States and Canada. The best-known members include Cherokee, Mohawk and Seneca. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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The filter only changes what is drawn. Tap the map to list every language at a spot, whichever family is shown. You can also pick any family from its own page.

Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Iroquoian family at a glance

  • 6languages
  • 2drawn as areas
  • 4shown as points

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Iroquoian alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Iroquoian languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Cherokee spoken? (about 12,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Mohawk spoken? (about 3,500 speakers)
  3. Where is Seneca spoken? (about 100 speakers)
  4. Where is Cayuga spoken? (about 55 speakers)
  5. Where is Oneida spoken? (about 55 speakers)
  6. Where is Onondaga spoken? (about 40 speakers)

Where Iroquoian languages are spoken

Countries with the most Iroquoian languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 6 Iroquoian languages, A to Z

Questions about Iroquoian languages

How many Iroquoian languages are there?

6 living Iroquoian languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Iroquoian languages spoken?

United States (6) and Canada (5) have the most Iroquoian languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Iroquoian languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Cherokee (about 12,000), Mohawk (about 3,500) and Seneca (about 100). These figures differ between sources and years.

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