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 | Boreal forests/taiga | Deserts and xeric shrublands | Flooded grasslands and savannas | Mangroves | Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub | Montane grasslands and shrublands | Rock and ice | Tundra | Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests | Temperate coniferous forests | Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests | Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests | Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 7.43% | 100% | 63.1% | 21.0% | 4.15% | 41.7% | 93.1% | ||||||||||||
| 3.27% | 4.97% | 9.44% | 12.9% | 43.9% | 40.8% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 60.4% | 7.22% | 5.20% | 2.81% | 40.6% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2.53% | 23.5% | 1.31% | 22.5% | 4.06% | 28.6% | 6.61% | 12.9% | 15.0% | 15.4% | 14.8% | |||||||||||||
| 53.6% | 37.2% | 28.5% | 8.24% | 2.02% | 6.81% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 58.4% | 48.6% | 9.84% | 33.0% | 56.8% | 9.77% | 30.1% | 9.84% | ||||||||||||||||
| 8.84% | 1.87% | 2.31% | 18.4% | 11.4% | 2.67% | 13.1% | 48.0% | 30.2% | 26.1% | 5.47% | 49.3% | ||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 100% | 64.0% | 81.6% | 18.4% | 100% | 35.5% | 18.8% | 87.1% | |||||||||||||||
| 28.5% | 18.2% | 1.13% | 1.00% | 3.15% | 29.7% | 11.0% | 9.56% | 12.6% | 22.5% | 19.0% | 13.5% | ||||||||||||
| 35.9% | 10.5% | 5.61% | 1.60% | 3.77% | 4.09% | 1.63% | 31.0% | 36.6% | |||||||||||||||
| 2.21% | 1.32% | 1.73% | 2.47% | 15.8% | 83.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 82.0% | 6.93% | 20.0% | 6.94% | 26.5% | 6.01% | 9.99% | |||||||||||||||||
| 34.7% | 6.20% | 2.51% | 8.09% | 14.4% | 60.5% | 14.1% | 28.0% | ||||||||||||||||