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 | less than -48°C | -42 to -47°C | -36 to -41°C | -30 to -35°C | -24 to -29°C | -18 to -23°C | -12 to -17°C | -6 to -11°C | 0 to -5°C | 0 to 2°C | 3 to 5°C | 6 to 8°C | 9 to 11°C | 12 to 14°C | 15 to 17°C | 18 to 20°C | 21 to 23°C | 24 to 26°C | 27 to 29°C | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 24.8% | 75.2% | 32.8% | 42.6% | 24.3% | 64.5% | 54.1% | 99.7% | ||||||||||||
| 100% | 16.0% | 91.1% | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17.0% | 53.0% | 31.5% | 19.5% | 22.3% | 24.1% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2.26% | 15.3% | 10.7% | 24.2% | 14.0% | 8.62% | 7.25% | 4.33% | 4.53% | 2.46% | 1.37% | 51.5% | 2.94% | ||||||||||||
| 1.45% | 14.4% | 17.8% | 7.40% | 18.4% | 1.62% | 8.23% | 1.41% | 42.2% | 9.62% | |||||||||||||||
| 25.4% | 49.2% | 50.8% | 17.6% | 35.7% | 28.8% | 26.9% | 22.1% | 5.88% | 9.29% | |||||||||||||||
| 2.32% | 7.49% | 13.8% | 13.5% | 16.5% | 18.7% | 53.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 3.69% | 9.02% | 28.6% | 30.2% | 25.0% | 4.06% | 6.38% | 2.28% | 2.62% | 98.8% | 63.8% | 21.8% | 66.9% | 11.2% | 96.8% | 97.5% | ||||||||
| 4.50% | 15.7% | 16.5% | 12.9% | 8.89% | 1.47% | 8.31% | 10.1% | 11.2% | 4.37% | 3.31% | 2.69% | 1.07% | 1.83% | 31.3% | 8.53% | |||||||||
| 2.85% | 11.2% | 1.27% | 4.09% | 4.31% | 6.13% | 12.7% | 10.5% | 15.5% | 4.19% | 11.5% | 57.4% | |||||||||||||
| 2.43% | 2.39% | 7.48% | 12.5% | 23.5% | 5.66% | 24.6% | 30.5% | 67.3% | ||||||||||||||||
| 4.40% | 8.59% | 59.3% | 18.4% | 31.1% | 12.8% | 10.7% | 8.41% | 18.7% | 8.30% | |||||||||||||||
| 6.46% | 26.4% | 27.0% | 35.7% | 39.9% | 94.8% | |||||||||||||||||||
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