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The predominant language families of Australia and Oceania. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

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A 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.

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Language Families					Asian American Population			Human Occupation
Austronesian	Austronesian and Papuan	English	English and areas of persisting indigenous languages	Papuan	Class	Rank	Value	Settled prior to 2500 BCE	Settled by 1200 BCE	Settled by 200 BCE	Settled by 400 CE	Settled by 800 CE
81.6%	7.90%	15.2%	24.9%	86.2%				99.3%	83.2%	31.2%	37.5%	99.1%
87.5%									36.0%

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