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 | very high (>300) | high (100–300) | medium (20–100) | low (2–20) | very low (<2) | very high (>300) | high (100–300) | medium (20–100) | low–very low (<20) | very high–high (>100) | medium–very low (<100) | Polar Ice | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 2.66% | 2.81% | 24.2% | 11.8% | 31.9% | 1.65% | 96.7% | |||||||||
95.3% | 15.7% | 25.8% | 14.2% | 9.54% | ||||||||||||||||
1.39% | 1.63% | 3.56% | 4.75% | 3.44% | 4.96% | 69.5% | ||||||||||||||
2.32% | 2.73% | 3.20% | 1.13% | 2.00% | 4.08% | 13.7% | 11.2% | 48.2% | ||||||||||||
5.03% | 4.61% | 9.70% | 25.4% | 1.14% | 64.7% | 30.1% | 1.91% | 11.0% | ||||||||||||
10.6% | 27.8% | 30.3% | 10.1% | 10.3% | 11.7% | 11.8% | 15.8% | 31.4% | 7.01% | |||||||||||
20.0% | 6.33% | 2.80% | 7.88% | 14.2% | 8.34% | 6.38% | 2.17% | 9.39% | 13.4% | |||||||||||
87.5% | 1.12% | 24.4% | 31.7% | 2.23% | 57.5% | 47.2% | 13.5% | 96.5% | ||||||||||||
6.83% | 2.65% | 3.75% | 2.74% | 4.53% | 3.56% | 5.56% | 2.78% | 4.63% | ||||||||||||
13.3% | 7.27% | 4.96% | 8.94% | 10.4% | 2.03% | 28.8% | 2.70% | 3.28% | 16.6% | |||||||||||
4.40% | 5.82% | 5.29% | 8.30% | 2.83% | 7.37% | 23.2% | 14.7% | |||||||||||||
1.64% | 3.32% | 9.90% | 21.7% | 2.55% | 14.0% | 9.61% | 2.91% | 24.3% | ||||||||||||
21.6% | 12.5% | 12.4% | 14.7% | 9.59% | 5.50% | 9.06% | 16.5% | 27.8% | 18.8% |
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