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 | -2.0 to 0.0 | 0.0 to 1.9 | 2.0 to 3.9 | 4.0 to 5.9 | 6.0 to 7.9 | 8.0 to 9.9 | 10.0 to 11.9 | 12.0 to 13.9 | 14.0 to 15.9 | 16.0 to 17.9 | 18.0 to 19.9 | 20.0 to 21.9 | 22.0 to 23.9 | 24.0 to 25.9 | 26.0 to 27.9 | 28.0 to 29.9 | 30.0 to 32.0 | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.47% | 12.1% | 1.08% | 100% | 28.3% | 17.7% | 3.17% | ||||||||||||||
| 100% | 36.7% | 4.98% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.16% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.33% | 31.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.37% | 1.54% | 6.46% | 3.58% | 3.90% | 1.32% | 2.51% | 1.50% | 5.05% | 3.20% | ||||||||||||||||
| 1.53% | 1.40% | 1.91% | 1.44% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 1.06% | 100% | 11.8% | 7.96% | 63.5% | 7.48% | 12.7% | 10.1% | 16.5% | 29.2% | |||||||||||||||
| 2.13% | 1.28% | 100% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2.36% | 2.54% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.71% | 1.13% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 76.8% | 1.22% | 1.30% | 100% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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