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 | Global Terrorist Attacks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87.5% | |||||||||
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 1 | ||||
| 1 | |||||||||
| 105 | |||||||||
| 6 | |||||||||
| 10 | |||||||||
| 1.875 | |||||||||
| 10.428571428571429 | |||||||||
| 2.6666666666666665 | |||||||||
| 46 | |||||||||
| 3 | |||||||||
| 27.076923076923077 | |||||||||
| 11.384615384615385 | |||||||||
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