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 | Afro-Asiatic | Altaic | Amerindian and Indo-European | Austro-Asiatic | Austronesian | Basque | Caucasian | Dravidian | Eskimo-Aleut | Indo-European | Japanese | Khoisan | Korean | Niger-Congo | Nilo-Saharan | Paleo-Siberian | Papuan | Sino-Tibetan | Tai-Kadai | Uralic | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.96% | 39.1% | 86.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||
79.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62.1% | 46.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44.5% | 81.0% | 4.67% | 96.1% | 62.7% | 1.37% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2.05% | 38.5% | 74.5% | 4.57% | 4.59% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
97.2% | 4.35% | 1.49% | 61.0% | 39.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
24.0% | 24.7% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87.5% | 100% | 3.88% | 5.61% | 65.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
4.98% | 7.29% | 41.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17.1% | 76.1% | 5.05% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31.7% | 8.18% | 7.63% | 16.8% | 49.9% | 39.0% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
80.3% | 30.5% | 51.4% | 20.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
56.6% | 99.8% | 18.8% | 27.4% | 70.9% | 27.4% |
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