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 | Aymara | Embera | Garifuna | Guaraní | Quechua | Guna | Mapuche | Mayan | Miskitu | Mixtec | Nawan/Spanish | Pemon | Zapotec | Wahiro | Yamomani | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | |||||||||||||||||||
87.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7.27% | 3.59% | 4.50% | 4.49% | 6.57% | 11.0% | 16.9% | 33.8% | 11.9% | 7.66% | 1.19% | 1.80% | ||||||||||||
1.04% | 1.23% | 1.62% | 2.03% |
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