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 | 2.00 - 3.32 | 1.00 - 1.99 | 0.50 - 0.99 | 0.20 - 0.49 | -0.20 - 0.19 | -0.50 - -0.21 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 87.0% | 24.4% | 86.2% | 18.1% | ||||||
78.4% | 97.2% | |||||||||||||
15.2% | 87.7% | |||||||||||||
2.75% | 95.3% | 2.66% | ||||||||||||
15.7% | 58.3% | 26.3% | ||||||||||||
95.7% | 34.3% | 4.89% | ||||||||||||
64.5% | 33.9% | 15.4% | 2.18% | |||||||||||
87.5% | 4.75% | 8.94% | 32.3% | 53.4% | 9.82% | 1.66% | ||||||||
1.13% | 12.6% | 47.7% | 21.0% | 20.1% | ||||||||||
40.6% | 79.9% | |||||||||||||
13.2% | 84.7% | 19.9% | ||||||||||||
59.1% | 49.3% | 9.35% | ||||||||||||
54.3% | 55.4% | 11.0% |
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