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 | Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (70 m) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 15.4% | ||||
| 52.7% | |||||||||
| 6.19% | |||||||||
| 2.69% | |||||||||
| 11.4% | |||||||||
| 11.3% | |||||||||
| 87.5% | 10.3% | ||||||||
| 3.28% | |||||||||
| 8.92% | |||||||||
| 7.50% | |||||||||
| 6.09% | |||||||||
| 7.84% | |||||||||
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