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 | Arctic Cordillera | Tundra | Taiga | Hudson Plain | Boreal forests | Northwestern forested mountains | Eastern temperate forests | Great Plains | Deserts and steppes | Mediterranean California | Southern semi-arid highlands | Temperate sierras | Tropical dry forests | Tropical wet forests | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1.08% | 3.57% | 4.43% | 2.73% | 12.4% | 5.44% | 22.2% | 10.2% | 1.91% | 1.48% | 4.09% | 2.82% | 1.51% | 11.2% | |||||||||