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 | 80 and over inches | 60–79 inches | 40–59 inches | 20–39 inches | 10–19 inches | Under 10 inches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 9.19% | 12.4% | 24.4% | 5.39% | ||||||
| 93.2% | 8.15% | 7.96% | ||||||||||||
| 44.9% | 56.1% | |||||||||||||
| 15.4% | 8.42% | 13.3% | 21.5% | 38.2% | 22.1% | |||||||||
| 50.7% | 3.38% | 41.2% | 34.7% | |||||||||||
| 9.49% | 5.30% | 26.9% | 48.4% | 27.2% | 3.12% | |||||||||
| 4.87% | 32.5% | 20.2% | 12.8% | 8.70% | 13.9% | |||||||||
| 87.5% | 21.3% | 6.84% | 5.04% | 6.94% | 9.54% | 78.4% | ||||||||
| 1.33% | 7.40% | 18.1% | 16.2% | 5.81% | ||||||||||
| 1.73% | 12.2% | 22.2% | 33.9% | 21.9% | 44.2% | |||||||||
| 22.8% | 28.3% | 11.7% | ||||||||||||
| 2.08% | 21.2% | 20.4% | 72.6% | |||||||||||
| 15.1% | 35.1% | 28.7% | 30.9% | 22.4% | 36.0% | |||||||||
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