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 | Not available | Least ethnically diverse | Less ethnically diverse | Moderately ethnically diverse | More ethnically diverse | Most ethnically diverse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.44% | 100% | 98.0% | 100% | 100% | 100% | ||
| 3.13% | 56.1% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |||||||
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| 2.73% | 99.9% | 100% | 100% | 100% | ||||||||
| 100% | 99.9% | 100% | ||||||||||
| 3.31% | 22.0% | 93.8% | 100% | 99.3% | 100% | |||||||
| 4.38% | 99.3% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |||||||
| 87.5% | 14.0% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |||||||
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| 1.49% | 99.9% | 100% | 100% | 100% | ||||||||
| 1.27% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | ||||||||
| 2.50% | 61.4% | 100% | 100% | 85.3% | 100% | |||||||
| 1.44% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 99.9% | 100% | ||||||
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