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Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages map

315 Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages are on the map, most of them in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. It divides into 10 main branches, the largest being Madang (107 languages). The best-known members include Enga, Western Dani and Siane. 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 Trans New Guinea family at a glance

  • 315languages
  • 246drawn as areas
  • 69shown as points
  • 10main branches

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

Biggest Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages

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

  1. Where is Enga spoken? (about 230,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Western Dani spoken? (about 180,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Siane spoken? (about 29,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Agarabi spoken? (about 27,000 speakers)
  5. Where is Alekano spoken? (about 25,000 speakers)
  6. Where is Yagaria spoken? (about 21,000 speakers)
  7. Where is Moni spoken? (about 20,000 speakers)
  8. Where is Angguruk Yali spoken? (about 15,000 speakers)
  9. Where is Guhu-Samane spoken? (about 13,000 speakers)
  10. Where is Hunjara-Kaina Ke spoken? (about 8,770 speakers)

Branches of Nuclear Trans New Guinea

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Madang (107)
  • Finisterre-Huon (60)
  • Asmat-Awyu-Ok (50)
  • Kainantu-Goroka (28)
  • Chimbu-Wahgi (17)
  • Enga-Kewa-Huli (14)
  • Greater Binanderean (13)
  • Dani (13)
  • Mek (8)
  • Paniai Lakes (5)

Where Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages are spoken

Countries with the most Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 315 Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages, A to Z

Questions about Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages

How many Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages are there?

315 living Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 10 main branches, the biggest being Madang (107 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages spoken?

Papua New Guinea (253) and Indonesia (69) have the most Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Nuclear Trans New Guinea languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Enga (about 230,000), Western Dani (about 180,000) and Siane (about 29,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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