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 | -0.1 - -0.001 | 0.0 - 0.199 | 0.2 - 0.399 | 0.4 - 0.599 | 0.6 - 0.799 | 0.8 - 0.9 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 4.75% | 20.1% | 18.7% | 57.0% | ||||||
4.82% | 12.1% | 70.2% | ||||||||||||
49.2% | 33.1% | 18.4% | 8.97% | |||||||||||
29.2% | 12.8% | 13.2% | 32.2% | 17.0% | ||||||||||
3.79% | 2.50% | 13.3% | 52.2% | 28.9% | ||||||||||
14.7% | 9.80% | 13.8% | 15.9% | 68.8% | 12.3% | |||||||||
2.95% | 22.4% | 12.3% | 24.3% | 30.9% | 34.3% | |||||||||
87.5% | 82.2% | 19.0% | 1.90% | 26.2% | ||||||||||
2.30% | 7.22% | 14.7% | 16.6% | 43.6% | 11.3% | |||||||||
19.8% | 17.1% | 40.8% | 20.2% | 4.66% | ||||||||||
5.41% | 33.8% | 52.1% | ||||||||||||
93.6% | 12.2% | 17.8% | 4.74% | 3.40% | ||||||||||
39.9% | 28.3% | 28.1% | 27.6% | 21.3% |
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