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 | Sea Level to -200 | -201 to -2000 | -2001 to -3000 | -3001 to -4000 | -4001 to -5000 | -5001 to -6000 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 9.63% | 4.95% | 4.88% | 16.9% | 42.6% | 3.66% | ||||
| 11.7% | 22.0% | 15.9% | 1.10% | 100% | ||||||||||
| 1.69% | ||||||||||||||
| 11.6% | 1.52% | |||||||||||||
| 2.06% | ||||||||||||||
| 5.50% | 4.33% | |||||||||||||
| 2.76% | 2.15% | |||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 2.81% | 54.6% | 100% | 97.4% | ||||||||||
| 3.89% | ||||||||||||||
| 1.65% | 6.99% | |||||||||||||
| 2.55% | 5.93% | |||||||||||||
| 1.68% | 1.34% | |||||||||||||
| 2.06% | 1.31% | 47.2% | 7.31% | |||||||||||
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