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 | -1.75 to -1.5 | -1.5 to -1.25 | -1.25 to -1.0 | -1.0 to -0.75 | -0.75 to -0.5 | -0.5 to -0.25 | -0.25 to 0.25 | 0.25 to 0.5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 43.8% | 13.3% | 6.65% | 11.5% | 17.3% | 15.1% | 5.52% | 22.9% | ||||
| 24.2% | 17.6% | |||||||||||||||
| 22.4% | ||||||||||||||||
| 100% | 1.94% | |||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 100% | 4.39% | 4.72% | |||||||||||||
| 100% | ||||||||||||||||
| 10.5% | 13.5% | |||||||||||||||
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