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 | United Nations Peacekeeping Missions Past & Present | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.44% | ||
87.5% | 14.0% | ||||||
3.13% | 4 | ||||||
1.5 | |||||||
2.73% | 1 | ||||||
1 | |||||||
3.31% | 1.75 | ||||||
4.38% | 1.25 | ||||||
1.49% | 2 | ||||||
1.27% | 2.6666666666666665 | ||||||
2.50% | 1.5 | ||||||
1.44% | 2 |
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