List of language families by percentage of speakers in mankind

• Indo-European languages (~48% of mankind)
  • Indo-Iranian languages (~17%)
  • Romance languages (~10%)
  • Germanic languages (~9%)
  • Balto-Slavic languages (~4%)
• Sino-Tibetan languages (~23%)
• Niger-Congo languages (~10%)
• Afro-Asiatic languages (~5%)
• Austronesian languages (~5%)
  • Formosan languages (<0.1%)
  • Malayo-Polynesian languages (~5%)
• Dravidian languages (~3%)
• Altaic languages (~3%)
• Japonic languages (~2%)
• Tai-Kadai languages (~2%)
• Austro-Asiatic languages (~1%)

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• Uralic languages (~0.4%)
• Caucasian languages (~0.2%)
• Nilo-Saharan languages (~0.12%)
• Highland Indian languages (~0.12%)
• Tupi languages (<0.1%)
• Nakho-Dagestanian languages (<0.1%)
• Nachi languages (<0.1%)
• Mayan languages (<0.1%)
• Uto-Aztecan languages (<0.1%)
• Na-Dene languages (<0.1%)
• Khoisan languages (<0.1%)
• Algonquian languages (<0.1%)
• Salishan languages (<0.1%)
• Wakashan languages (<0.1%)
• Muskogee languages (<0.1%)
• Siouan languages (<0.1%)
• Iroquoian languages (<0.1%)
• Caddoan languages (<0.1%)
• Hokan languages (<0.1%)
• Penutian languages (<0.1%)
• Mixe-Zoquean languages (<0.1%)
• Totonacan languages (<0.1%)
• Kiowa-Tanoan languages (<0.1%)
• Oto-Manguean languages (<0.1%)
• Misumalpan languages (<0.1%)
• Chibchan languages (<0.1%)
• Macro-Ge languages (<0.1%)
• Panoan languages (<0.1%)
• Carib languages (<0.1%)
• Mataco-Guaicuru languages (<0.1%)
• Arawakan languages (<0.1%)
• Araucanian languages (<0.1%)
• Eskimo-Aleut languages (<0.1%)