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 | British annexation 1753–1805 | British annexation after 1805 | Dependent state | Minor dependent state | Under British supervision, later annexed | Portuguese territory | French territory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | |||||||||||
| 87.5% | |||||||||||||||
| 0.436% | |||||||||||||||
| 28.7% | 33.9% | 31.7% | 11.9% | 11.6% | 0.112% | 0.771% | |||||||||
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