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 | Mongolian | Azeri | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kyrgyz | Turkmen | Uyghur | Uzbek | Baluchi | Mountain Tajik (8 separate languages) | Pashtun | Russian | Tajik and Dari (Persian) | Other and uninhabited | Mandarin Chinese | Tibetan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.07% | 79.3% | 65.6% | 44.0% | 12.9% | 10.8% | 23.3% | 42.4% | 14.3% | 37.0% | 4.51% | ||||||||||||||
| 19.3% | 1.10% | 5.87% | 1.78% | 9.71% | 6.94% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5.33% | 24.7% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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