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 | No data | Arid and low water use | Low (<10%) | Low-medium (10-20%) | Medium-high (20-40%) | High (40-80%) | Extremely high (>80%) | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 45.1% | 2.35% | 50.6% | 1.59% | |||||||
73.2% | 13.0% | 2.98% | 2.29% | 34.2% | 17.3% | 7.81% | |||||||||
45.6% | 9.63% | 3.10% | 4.20% | 2.27% | 18.6% | ||||||||||
1.78% | 29.9% | 6.11% | 3.99% | 1.88% | 1.38% | 6.36% | |||||||||
85.9% | 2.78% | 32.9% | 3.31% | 66.3% | |||||||||||
6.13% | 37.1% | 12.5% | 12.7% | 15.9% | 11.2% | ||||||||||
1.80% | 8.19% | 79.9% | 2.33% | 1.98% | 1.76% | 2.19% | |||||||||
87.5% | 93.6% | 69.2% | 25.7% | 4.41% | |||||||||||
1.65% | 13.9% | 1.24% | 1.43% | 2.01% | 3.75% | ||||||||||
50.0% | 9.74% | 13.7% | 3.74% | 3.44% | 9.51% | 25.8% | |||||||||
49.1% | 8.12% | 7.78% | 3.15% | 3.22% | |||||||||||
49.2% | 4.55% | 4.78% | 6.81% | 6.24% | 20.8% | ||||||||||
20.0% | 26.2% | 74.8% | 4.33% | 3.28% | 2.95% | 2.37% |
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