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 | Azeri | Baluchi | Kurd | Persian | Shiite Arab | Sunni Arab | Shiite and Sunni Arab | Sparsely populated | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||
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1.02% | 10.7% | 7.45% | 35.3% | 6.77% | 13.7% | 1.03% | 2.77% |
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