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 | Shandong | Liaoning | Guangdong | Fujian | Inner Mongolia | Jiangsu | Gansu | Yunnan | Guizhou | Xizang | Shanxi | Guangxi | Anhui | Jiangxi | Sichuan | Henan | Heilongjiang | Xinjiang Uygur | Hebei | Qinghai | Hunan | Shaanxi | Hubei | Jilin | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1.64% | 1.65% | 1.60% | 1.14% | 13.5% | 1.00% | 4.00% | 3.61% | 1.66% | 11.2% | 1.67% | 2.21% | 1.41% | 1.62% | 4.79% | 1.70% | 5.70% | 18.1% | 2.07% | 7.50% | 2.02% | 2.15% | 1.84% | 2.23% | |||||||||
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