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My (Dreg743) modification, of a commons image, in which some of the larger language families are divided (mistakes may have happened) and sample languages of many have been set on the map, where these are spoken (mistakes are probably present). "East Siberian Languages" is not a language family. See also altaic.
~100 languages/groups are mentioned, one estimate of a total number of native speakers of these is 4,7*109. Probably over 6 billion (thousand million) people can speak at least one of these.
Image should be checked and corrected. 84.231.183.53 06:10, 5 September 2006 (UTC) Kamtchatka is wrong. And how about carib ? Tamazight = Berber? Indonesian languages?? Divisions of afroasiatic family?
Should find a better colour scheme for adding colours...1024 colors instead of 256?
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