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The predominant language families of Australia and Oceania. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

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A 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.

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Language Families					Continental Shelf	Students per Teacher in Primary School
Austronesian	Austronesian and Papuan	English	English and areas of persisting indigenous languages	Papuan	Continental Shelf	Class	Rank	Value
81.6%	7.90%	15.2%	24.9%	86.2%	2.44%
					3.13%

					2.73%

					3.31%
					4.38%
87.5%					14.0%

					1.49%
					1.27%
					2.50%
					1.44%

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