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 | -0.5 to -0.25 | -0.25 to 0.25 | 0.25 to 0.5 | 0.5 to 0.75 | 0.75 to 1.0 | 1.0 to 1.25 | 1.25 to 1.5 | 1.5 to 1.75 | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 3.61% | 5.25% | 24.0% | 2.19% | 8.23% | 7.64% | 10.5% | 43.8% | ||||
31.0% | 100% | |||||||||||||||
22.4% | ||||||||||||||||
2.41% | ||||||||||||||||
1.01% | ||||||||||||||||
87.5% | 5.09% | 3.96% | ||||||||||||||
100% | ||||||||||||||||
10.5% | 13.5% | 1.09% |
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