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 | Predominantly Muslim | Predominantly Catholic | Predominantly Protestant | Traditional African | Coptic Christian | Falasha (Black Jews) | Hindu | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | |||||||||||
| 87.5% | 99.9% | ||||||||||||||
| 1.91% | |||||||||||||||
| 53.4% | 84.2% | 87.0% | 21.5% | 45.9% | 1.72% | 1.75% | |||||||||
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