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 | 0.0 to 0.5 | 0.5 to 1.0 | 1.0 to 1.5 | 1.5 to 2.0 | 2.0 to 3.0 | 3.0 to 4.0 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 97.5% | 99.3% | ||||||||
100% | ||||||||||||||
67.7% | 39.6% | |||||||||||||
98.1% | 99.5% | 2.57% | ||||||||||||
12.7% | 56.4% | 30.4% | 1.06% | |||||||||||
38.0% | 84.5% | 30.6% | 17.9% | 11.9% | ||||||||||
35.3% | 69.8% | |||||||||||||
87.5% | 35.2% | 61.0% | 33.4% | 6.59% | ||||||||||
4.78% | 26.0% | 52.1% | 24.4% | |||||||||||
29.2% | 71.6% | 2.50% | ||||||||||||
72.1% | 69.1% | |||||||||||||
29.6% | 96.5% | |||||||||||||
42.2% | 79.2% |
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