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Nuclear-Macro-Je languages map

16 Nuclear-Macro-Je languages are on the map, most of them in Brazil. It divides into 3 main branches, the largest being Je (10 languages). The best-known members include Xavánte, Mebengokre and Xokleng. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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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 Nuclear-Macro-Je family at a glance

  • 16languages
  • 16drawn as areas
  • 0shown as points
  • 3main branches

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

Biggest Nuclear-Macro-Je languages

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

  1. Where is Xavánte spoken? (about 9,600 speakers)
  2. Where is Mebengokre spoken? (about 7,100 speakers)
  3. Where is Xokleng spoken? (about 760 speakers)
  4. Where is Suyá spoken? (about 350 speakers)

Branches of Nuclear-Macro-Je

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Je (10)
  • Maxakali-Borum (2)
  • Jabuti (1)

Where Nuclear-Macro-Je languages are spoken

Countries with the most Nuclear-Macro-Je languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 16 Nuclear-Macro-Je languages, A to Z

Questions about Nuclear-Macro-Je languages

How many Nuclear-Macro-Je languages are there?

16 living Nuclear-Macro-Je languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 3 main branches, the biggest being Je (10 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Nuclear-Macro-Je languages spoken?

Brazil (16) and Bolivia (1) have the most Nuclear-Macro-Je languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Nuclear-Macro-Je languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Xavánte (about 9,600), Mebengokre (about 7,100) and Xokleng (about 760). These figures differ between sources and years.

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