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 | Moderate | High | Very High | Desert - Dry Regions | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 1.86% | |||||||
4.58% | 2.91% | 9.51% | 4.95% | |||||||||
2.52% | 7.35% | 30.8% | 59.1% | |||||||||
2.31% | 30.5% | |||||||||||
5.18% | 5.94% | 1.92% | 1.05% | |||||||||
16.5% | 11.9% | 10.8% | ||||||||||
11.3% | 5.72% | 4.10% | 12.2% | |||||||||
87.5% | 1.22% | 5.24% | 92.9% | |||||||||
5.96% | 1.46% | 11.7% | 9.60% | |||||||||
19.6% | 5.24% | 9.49% | 20.7% | |||||||||
19.0% | 2.57% | 2.44% | ||||||||||
8.30% | 16.0% | 15.2% | 72.0% | |||||||||
21.4% | 16.2% | 6.96% | 47.0% |
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