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Tuu languages map

3 Tuu languages are on the map, most of them in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Hua (2 languages). The best-known members include East Taa and N||ng. 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 Tuu family at a glance

3languages
1drawn as areas
2shown as points
2main branches

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

Biggest Tuu languages

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

Where is East Taa spoken? (about 4,200 speakers)
Where is N||ng spoken? (about 3 speakers)

Branches of Tuu

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

Hua (2)
!Ui (1)

Where Tuu languages are spoken

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

All 3 Tuu languages, A to Z

Questions about Tuu languages

How many Tuu languages are there?

3 living Tuu languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Hua (2 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Tuu languages spoken?

Botswana (2), Namibia (2) and South Africa (2) have the most Tuu languages, with the number of languages in brackets.