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 | Russian Arctic | Svalbard and Jan Mayen | Greenland | Central Asia | Southern Andes | Iceland | Alaska | Oil Slicks (1990s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 3.94% | ||||||||
| 20.2% | |||||||||||||
| 1.59% | |||||||||||||
| 8.49% | |||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 5.14% | ||||||||||||
| 2.51% | |||||||||||||
| 1.19% | |||||||||||||
| 10.5% | |||||||||||||
| 2.42% | |||||||||||||
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