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Mongolic-Khitan languages map

14 Mongolic-Khitan languages are on the map, most of them in China, Mongolia and Russia. The best-known members include Halh Mongolian, Oirad-Kalmyk-Darkhat and Russia Buriat. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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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 Mongolic-Khitan family at a glance

  • 14languages
  • 14drawn as areas
  • 0shown as points

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

Biggest Mongolic-Khitan languages

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

  1. Where is Halh Mongolian spoken? (about 2.7 million speakers)
  2. Where is Oirad-Kalmyk-Darkhat spoken? (about 780,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Russia Buriat spoken? (about 219,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Dongxiang spoken? (about 200,000 speakers)
  5. Where is Dagur spoken? (about 96,000 speakers)
  6. Where is China Buriat spoken? (about 65,000 speakers)
  7. Where is Mongolia Buriat spoken? (about 43,000 speakers)
  8. Where is Bonan spoken? (about 10,000 speakers)
  9. Where is East Yugur spoken? (about 4,000 speakers)
  10. Where is Kangjia spoken? (about 1,000 speakers)

Where Mongolic-Khitan languages are spoken

Countries with the most Mongolic-Khitan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 14 Mongolic-Khitan languages, A to Z

Questions about Mongolic-Khitan languages

How many Mongolic-Khitan languages are there?

14 living Mongolic-Khitan languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Mongolic-Khitan languages spoken?

China (13), Mongolia (8), Russia (6) and Kazakhstan (3) have the most Mongolic-Khitan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Mongolic-Khitan languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Halh Mongolian (about 2.7 million), Oirad-Kalmyk-Darkhat (about 780,000) and Russia Buriat (about 219,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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