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 | 4000+ m | 2000–3,999 m | 500–1,999 m | 200–499 m | 1–199 m | Below sea level to 0 m | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 3.11% | 4.49% | 3.56% | 2.07% | ||||||
6.74% | 4.53% | 17.7% | ||||||||||||
10.1% | 30.1% | 12.5% | 10.2% | 40.4% | 5.72% | |||||||||
18.6% | 9.30% | 14.7% | 3.94% | 13.0% | ||||||||||
6.39% | 1.95% | 2.01% | 3.90% | 1.28% | ||||||||||
1.47% | 14.7% | 17.8% | 32.0% | 2.89% | ||||||||||
5.39% | 8.58% | 19.0% | 8.61% | 29.5% | ||||||||||
87.5% | 65.2% | 26.5% | 2.19% | 1.47% | ||||||||||
4.90% | 4.91% | 8.08% | 1.92% | |||||||||||
4.47% | 3.92% | 10.1% | 27.6% | 30.5% | ||||||||||
1.88% | 13.7% | 3.18% | 20.7% | |||||||||||
2.13% | 37.6% | 21.2% | 12.3% | 2.25% | ||||||||||
7.29% | 47.7% | 36.0% | 15.4% | 1.40% |
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