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 | Abkhazia-Georgia | Azerbaijan-Nagorno-Karabakh | Egypt-Sudan | French Guiana-Suriname | Georgia-South Ossetia | Guyana-Suriname | Guyana-Venezuela | India-China | India-Pakistan | Israel-Palestine | Israel-Syria | Kenya-South Sudan-Ethiopia | Noth Korea-South Korea | Pakistan-India | Western Sahara-Morocco | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 98.7% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12.2% | 13.2% | 5.35% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.46% | 6.18% | 67.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2.25% | 3.69% | 9.32% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.71% | 5.36% | 6.04% | 38.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.64% | |||||||||||||||||||||||