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The predominant language families of Australia and Oceania. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

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A 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.

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Language Families

Asian American Population

British Empire, Early 1920s

Austronesian

Austronesian and Papuan

English

English and areas of persisting indigenous languages

Papuan

Class

Rank

Value

Aden

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Bahama Islands

Basutoland

Bechuanaland

British Guiana

British Honduras

British North Borneo

Cameroons

Canada

Ceylon

Cyprus

Egypt

Falkland Islands

Fiji

Gambia

Gold Coast

India

Iraq

Irish Free State

Jamaica

Kenya

Kuwait

Malay States

Mauritius

New Hebrides

New Zealand

Newfoundland

Nigeria

North East New Guinea

Northern Rhodesia

Nyasaland

Oman

Palestine

Qatar

Samoa

Sarawak

Sierra Leone

Solomon Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South West Africa

Southern Rhodesia

Swaziland

Tanganyika

Territory of Papua

Togo

Transjordan

Trinidad and Tobago

Trucial Oman

Uganda

Union of South Africa

United Kingdom

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40.9%94.0%84.3%
95.6%25.7%88.8%
98.8%96.9%
87.5%85.3%82.8%43.0%
95.5%3.10%
98.5%97.8%
21.9%97.5%39.6%38.0%
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