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 | Tropical rain forest (Af) | Tropical monsoon (Am) | Tropical savanna (Aw) | Tropical, subtropical hot desert (BWh) | Midlatitude cold desert (BWk) | Tropical, subtropical hot steppe (BSh) | Midlatitude cold steppe (BSk) | Humid subtropical moist all year, hot summer (Cfa) | Humid subtropical winter-dry, hot to warm summers (Cwa, Cwb) | Marine West Coast (Cfb, Cfc) | Mediterranean (Csa, Csb) | Humid continental, hot summers (Dfa, Dwa, Dsa) | Humid continental, mild summers (Dfb, Dwb, Dsb) | Subarctic, cool summer (Dfc, Dwc, Dsc) | Subarctic, cold winter (Dfd, Dwd) | Tundra (ET) | Ice cap and ice sheet (EF) | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 68.2% | 4.53% | 1.31% | 14.3% | 39.1% | 74.6% | |||||||||||||||
| 19.8% | 18.1% | 71.5% | 20.1% | 7.58% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 30.5% | 24.2% | 13.9% | 32.1% | 4.79% | 8.55% | 27.1% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1.64% | 18.9% | 13.3% | 14.4% | 9.82% | 6.80% | 5.24% | 2.75% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 32.3% | 22.8% | 3.63% | 9.10% | 1.62% | 13.1% | 57.0% | 11.1% | 3.16% | |||||||||||||||||
| 1.22% | 8.22% | 42.0% | 28.3% | 2.78% | 14.3% | 37.0% | 23.8% | 8.79% | 35.9% | 32.2% | 7.44% | ||||||||||||||
| 13.2% | 17.7% | 12.4% | 2.77% | 8.63% | 2.74% | 4.74% | 16.5% | 7.37% | 7.66% | 6.52% | 2.29% | ||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 56.1% | 5.24% | 3.41% | 98.5% | 1.43% | 7.98% | 18.0% | 94.9% | |||||||||||||||||
| 2.38% | 2.11% | 2.83% | 1.05% | 6.48% | 14.9% | 15.2% | 15.6% | 3.11% | 11.4% | 17.1% | 29.3% | 4.37% | |||||||||||||
| 18.7% | 1.92% | 32.0% | 18.4% | 2.44% | 9.66% | 5.85% | 25.3% | 5.06% | 4.17% | 1.97% | 4.40% | 27.6% | 2.37% | ||||||||||||
| 30.0% | 9.34% | 54.1% | 19.4% | 3.15% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 76.3% | 3.57% | 5.81% | 15.3% | 3.53% | 4.00% | 8.68% | 5.69% | 8.16% | |||||||||||||||||
| 13.4% | 14.2% | 37.2% | 36.3% | 12.6% | 21.1% | 15.7% | 3.19% | 27.8% | 2.69% | 5.26% | |||||||||||||||