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 | Equatorial | Tropical | Subtropical | Temperate | Subpolar | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 7.51% | 16.1% | 1.59% | 3.09% | 32.3% | ||||
8.16% | 10.9% | 100% | |||||||||||
8.03% | 4.84% | 1.37% | |||||||||||
1.87% | |||||||||||||
100% | 4.31% | 3.41% | 4.70% | ||||||||||
2.00% | 2.35% | 5.43% | |||||||||||
87.5% | 100% | 35.8% | 76.8% | 43.9% | 100% | ||||||||
1.68% | |||||||||||||
2.74% | |||||||||||||
5.02% | 4.96% | ||||||||||||
2.82% | 1.19% | ||||||||||||
1.73% | 100% |
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