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 | Jalisco, Mexico | Baja California, Mexico | Tamaulipas, Mexico | Maranhão, Brazil | Piauí, Brazil | Sonora, Mexico | Baja California Sur, Mexico | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Coahuila, Mexico | Ceará, Brazil | Bahia, Brazil | Pará, Brazil | Tabasco, Mexico | Zacatecas, Mexico | Pernambuco, Brazil | Acre, Brazil | Nuevo León, Mexico | Tocantins, Brazil | Amapá, Brazil | Rondônia, Brazil | Roraima, Brazil | Amazonas, Brazil | Minas Gerais, Brazil | Goiás, Brazil | Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Paraná, Brazil | Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Santa Catarina, Brazil | Chiapas, Mexico | São Paulo, Brazil | Oaxaca, Mexico | Guerrero, Mexico | Campeche, Mexico | Puebla, Mexico | Michoacán, Mexico | Nayarit, Mexico | México, Mexico | Hidalgo, Mexico | Veracruz, Mexico | Durango, Mexico | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Sinaloa, Mexico | Guanajuato, Mexico | Yucatán, Mexico | Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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