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Nuclear Torricelli languages map

55 Nuclear Torricelli languages are on the map, most of them in Papua New Guinea. It divides into 6 main branches, the largest being Wapei-Palei (22 languages). The best-known members include Abu' Arapesh and Ambrak. 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 Torricelli family at a glance

  • 55languages
  • 45drawn as areas
  • 10shown as points
  • 6main branches

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

Biggest Nuclear Torricelli languages

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

  1. Where is Abu' Arapesh spoken? (about 2,560 speakers)
  2. Where is Ambrak spoken? (about 290 speakers)

Branches of Nuclear Torricelli

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Wapei-Palei (22)
  • Kombio-Arapesh-Urat (10)
  • West Wapei (8)
  • Marienberg (7)
  • Nuclear Maimai (3)
  • Unclassified Nuclear Torricelli (1)

Where Nuclear Torricelli languages are spoken

Countries with the most Nuclear Torricelli languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 55 Nuclear Torricelli languages, A to Z

Questions about Nuclear Torricelli languages

How many Nuclear Torricelli languages are there?

55 living Nuclear Torricelli languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 6 main branches, the biggest being Wapei-Palei (22 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Nuclear Torricelli languages spoken?

Papua New Guinea (55) have the most Nuclear Torricelli languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

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