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 | Continental Shelf | Aden | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | Bahama Islands | Basutoland | Bechuanaland | British Guiana | British Honduras | British North Borneo | Cameroons | Canada | Ceylon | Cyprus | Egypt | Falkland Islands | Fiji | Gambia | Gold Coast | India | Iraq | Irish Free State | Jamaica | Kenya | Kuwait | Malay States | Mauritius | New Hebrides | New Zealand | Newfoundland | Nigeria | North East New Guinea | Northern Rhodesia | Nyasaland | Oman | Palestine | Qatar | Samoa | Sarawak | Sierra Leone | Solomon Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | South West Africa | Southern Rhodesia | Swaziland | Tanganyika | Territory of Papua | Togo | Transjordan | Trinidad and Tobago | Trucial Oman | Uganda | Union of South Africa | United Kingdom | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.44% | 87.3% | 96.9% | 45.3% | 46.0% | 64.8% | 75.6% | 51.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.13% | 40.9% | 94.0% | 84.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.31% | 95.6% | 25.7% | 88.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4.38% | 98.8% | 96.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87.5% | 14.0% | 85.3% | 82.8% | 43.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95.5% | 3.10% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1.49% | 98.5% | 97.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1.27% | 21.9% | 97.5% | 39.6% | 38.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2.50% | 47.4% | 4.39% | 37.8% | 98.5% | 93.1% | 26.1% | 30.2% | 96.8% | 76.6% | 56.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1.44% | 59.9% | 98.3% | 99.7% | 6.31% | 94.1% | 84.5% | 98.1% | 94.9% | 99.5% | 98.2% | 96.4% | 99.3% | 99.7% | 97.2% | 96.9% | 12.1% | 99.3% | 96.0% |