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 - 20 | 20 - 40 | 40 - 60 | 60 - 80 | 80 - 100 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 24.8% | 2.46% | 2.43% | 12.7% | 15.3% | ||||
31.2% | 14.1% | 8.30% | 3.99% | 2.14% | |||||||||
4.27% | |||||||||||||
6.19% | 2.02% | 3.53% | 1.30% | ||||||||||
2.93% | 2.98% | 1.01% | |||||||||||
87.5% | 19.9% | 18.1% | 24.9% | 2.92% | 7.39% | ||||||||
1.57% | 100% | ||||||||||||
1.52% | 4.20% | 1.69% | |||||||||||
1.79% | 5.66% | ||||||||||||
1.20% | 2.05% | 63.3% |
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