World Language Map

Chicham languages map

4 Chicham languages are on the map, most of them in Peru and Ecuador. The best-known members include Aguaruna, Shuar and Huambisa. 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 Chicham family at a glance

  • 4languages
  • 3drawn as areas
  • 1shown as points

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

Biggest Chicham languages

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

  1. Where is Aguaruna spoken? (about 57,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Shuar spoken? (about 35,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Huambisa spoken? (about 8,000 speakers)

Where Chicham languages are spoken

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

All 4 Chicham languages, A to Z

Questions about Chicham languages

How many Chicham languages are there?

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

Where are Chicham languages spoken?

Peru (4) and Ecuador (2) have the most Chicham languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Chicham languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Aguaruna (about 57,000), Shuar (about 35,000) and Huambisa (about 8,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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