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 | Altaic | Armenian | Belorussian | Caucasian | Eskimo-Aleut and other | Finno-Ugric | Romanian | Russian | Russian and Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 38.9% | 60.7% | 78.4% | 7.69% | 7.12% | 3.75% | |||||||||||||
| 99.6% | 85.4% | 21.5% | 77.8% | |||||||||||||||
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