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 | Class | Rank | Value | 0-5 | 5-10 | 10-20 | 20-40 | 40-80 | Over 80 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 14.3% | 62.6% | 49.7% | 15.1% | ||||||
58.2% | 27.0% | |||||||||||||
63.6% | 25.6% | 10.2% | 6.14% | |||||||||||
76.6% | 13.0% | 13.4% | 4.94% | |||||||||||
42.4% | 48.3% | 7.41% | 41.0% | |||||||||||
46.7% | 47.0% | 29.8% | 6.13% | |||||||||||
19.2% | 11.5% | 12.8% | 34.2% | 49.9% | 2.53% | |||||||||
87.5% | 48.0% | 33.2% | 15.1% | 7.51% | 52.6% | |||||||||
39.1% | 29.0% | 17.7% | 9.83% | 2.01% | ||||||||||
55.8% | 28.3% | 15.2% | 3.19% | 72.7% | ||||||||||
32.2% | 44.5% | 10.6% | 53.6% | 4.88% | ||||||||||
77.1% | 16.1% | 18.1% | 7.06% | |||||||||||
61.2% | 21.7% | 25.0% | 38.3% | 37.3% |
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