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 | Commercial gardening | Dairy | Grain | Intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant | Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant | Little or no agriculture | Livestock Ranching | Mediterranean | Mixed crop and livestock | Pastoral nomadism | Plantation | Shifting cultivation | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.71% | 25.1% | 8.01% | 4.80% | 3.15% | |||||||||||
| 14.9% | 92.5% | 15.5% | 28.7% | 96.8% | ||||||||||||||||
| 3.54% | 9.38% | 1.03% | 9.81% | 66.2% | 12.9% | 43.8% | ||||||||||||||
| 17.4% | 17.8% | 4.09% | 16.3% | 54.9% | 44.6% | |||||||||||||||
| 1.72% | 4.22% | 2.10% | 65.0% | 7.72% | 74.7% | 1.08% | ||||||||||||||
| 1.03% | 24.9% | 47.2% | 17.6% | 47.9% | 26.5% | 47.9% | 2.93% | 6.57% | ||||||||||||
| 6.42% | 9.10% | 9.93% | 6.18% | 27.6% | 14.8% | 2.39% | 3.76% | 18.7% | ||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 1.57% | 98.0% | 57.2% | 58.2% | 7.51% | 11.3% | ||||||||||||||
| 1.23% | 1.41% | 1.82% | 7.94% | 12.8% | 4.70% | 1.32% | 22.5% | 1.32% | ||||||||||||
| 19.4% | 10.5% | 8.26% | 13.3% | 2.97% | 1.06% | |||||||||||||||
| 11.4% | 28.3% | 2.01% | 9.82% | 15.2% | ||||||||||||||||
| 1.78% | 31.4% | 14.6% | 12.2% | 53.5% | ||||||||||||||||
| 18.6% | 17.4% | 8.03% | 7.51% | 19.5% | 13.3% | 5.87% | 36.9% | 4.32% | 53.4% | |||||||||||