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 | Andhra Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh | West Bengal | Punjab | Orissa | Karnataka | Maharashtra | Assam | Uttaranchal | Haryana | Uttar Pradesh | Madhya Pradesh | Rajasthan | Jharkhand | Chhattisgarh | Jammu and Kashmir | Bihar | Arunachal Pradesh | Tamil Nadu | Kerala | Gujarat | Lakshadweep | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||