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 | 0 - 149 | 150 - 299 | 300 - 749 | 750 - 1,499 | 1,500 - 2,999 | 3,000 - 7,499 | 7,500 - 9,999 | 10,000 - 18,334 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 54.6% | 3.39% | 17.3% | 2.37% | |||||
| 100% | 17.5% | 5.40% | 16.7% | 3.60% | 100% | ||||||||
| 1.16% | 2.25% | 11.6% | 1.30% | 2.32% | |||||||||
| 3.15% | 3.39% | 2.36% | 1.72% | 1.81% | 8.86% | 94.1% | |||||||
| 5.56% | 2.09% | 1.75% | 1.38% | ||||||||||
| 87.5% | 39.2% | 4.73% | 40.6% | 57.0% | 6.71% | 100% | |||||||
| 1.08% | 1.09% | ||||||||||||
| 100% | 5.08% | 4.51% | 1.51% | 1.64% | |||||||||
| 10.3% | 6.56% | ||||||||||||
| 1.37% | 1.22% | 9.76% | |||||||||||
| 2.64% | 1.26% | 3.74% | 6.56% | ||||||||||
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