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 | Bolivia, 1825 | Brazil, 1822 | Chile, 1817 | Gran Colombia, 1819–1830 | Mexico, 1821 | Paraguay, 1811 | Peru, 1821 | United Provinces of Central America, 1823–1839 | United Provinces of La Plata, 1816 | Uruguay, 1828 | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||
| 14.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 51.9% | 90.2% | 38.7% | 24.3% | 74.9% | 10.3% | 99.7% | 1.85% | 97.4% | ||||||||||
| 87.5% | 98.5% | |||||||||||||||||
| 33.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
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