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 | Areas of serious concern | Areas of some concern | Stable terrain | Nonvegetated land | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 19.9% | 3.98% | |||
| 31.3% | 20.7% | ||||||||
| 3.03% | 22.0% | 8.18% | 55.1% | ||||||
| 3.55% | 14.0% | 13.0% | 14.5% | ||||||
| 7.19% | 2.27% | 71.3% | |||||||
| 31.7% | 43.8% | 19.5% | |||||||
| 17.6% | 19.7% | 9.89% | 10.8% | ||||||
| 87.5% | 31.2% | 4.72% | 3.87% | 95.3% | |||||
| 8.43% | 2.94% | 1.97% | 8.56% | ||||||
| 5.14% | 21.1% | 3.46% | 6.72% | ||||||
| 41.1% | 31.7% | 1.12% | |||||||
| 31.6% | 38.1% | 40.4% | |||||||
| 36.7% | 40.0% | 20.2% | 31.2% | ||||||
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