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 | Wind erosion | Water erosion | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.64% | |||||
30.3% | ||||||||||
3.39% | 3.82% | |||||||||
2.81% | 18.0% | |||||||||
3.18% | 1.43% | |||||||||
22.9% | 24.9% | |||||||||
2.18% | 6.98% | |||||||||
87.5% | 22.2% | 76.2% | ||||||||
2.27% | 11.4% | |||||||||
2.72% | 5.61% | |||||||||
27.1% | ||||||||||
18.0% | 27.1% | |||||||||
14.8% | 14.3% |
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