Language Families
Australia & OceaniaCulturalThe predominant language families of Australia and Oceania. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.
natureA map shows global language families. Afro-Asiatic (red) in North Africa, Altaic (blue) in Central Asia, Amerindian and Indo-European (purple) in the Americas, Aboriginal Australian (orange) in Australia, and Austro-Asiatic (yellow) in Southeast Asia.
Austronesian | Austronesian and Papuan | English | English and areas of persisting indigenous languages | Papuan | Abyssal clay | Calcareous ooze | Continental (lithogenous) | Diatom | Radiolarian | Other | High | Low | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 5.64% | 5.75% | 1.31% | 90.5% | 2.73% | 3.98% | |||
| 47.8% | 26.0% | 92.7% | 28.3% | ||||||||||
| 1.46% | |||||||||||||
| 1.51% | 6.85% | ||||||||||||
| 2.95% | 6.55% | ||||||||||||
| 6.21% | 100% | 1.34% | |||||||||||
| 1.93% | 6.83% | ||||||||||||
| 7.81% | 2.82% | 1 | |||||||||||
| 87.5% | 37.8% | 40.8% | 1.37% | 18.7% | 5.15% | 1.12% | 1 | ||||||
| 2.61% | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2.22% | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2.26% | 3.45% | 1 | |||||||||||
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