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 | 2.0 to 3.0 | 3.0 to 4.0 | 4.0 to 5.0 | 5.0 to 7.0 | 7.0 to 9.0 | 9.0 to 11.0 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 29.7% | 75.3% | |||||
47.4% | 99.5% | ||||||||||
15.0% | 87.9% | ||||||||||
2.83% | 33.9% | 69.8% | |||||||||
2.06% | 57.9% | 37.8% | 2.15% | ||||||||
16.7% | 24.8% | 58.2% | 60.7% | 14.0% | 15.7% | ||||||
38.8% | 30.3% | 52.8% | 20.5% | ||||||||
87.5% | 99.9% | 33.3% | 57.8% | 66.5% | 14.4% | ||||||
6.30% | 17.1% | 53.6% | 26.3% | 8.69% | |||||||
30.3% | 48.7% | 24.6% | |||||||||
2.83% | 89.2% | 33.2% | |||||||||
10.1% | 42.9% | 58.7% | |||||||||
100% | 34.8% | 66.2% | 38.3% |
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