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 | Cenozoic sedimentary | Intrusive | Mesozoic sedimentary | Metamorphic | Unknown | Paleozoic sedimentary | Precambrian sedimentary | Volcanic, tectonic | Ice cap | |
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81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 40.9% | 8.26% | 21.7% | 4.88% | 20.0% | 17.3% | |||||||
55.0% | 15.5% | 29.7% | |||||||||||||||
57.9% | 3.58% | 9.59% | 4.04% | 14.9% | 1.41% | 15.8% | |||||||||||
25.3% | 8.87% | 19.3% | 5.70% | 19.7% | 5.47% | 16.9% | |||||||||||
26.9% | 5.11% | 19.9% | 5.64% | 24.5% | 2.86% | 15.0% | |||||||||||
35.4% | 14.5% | 23.3% | 15.9% | 18.8% | 12.3% | 11.5% | |||||||||||
38.2% | 7.56% | 10.6% | 20.2% | 9.86% | 4.45% | 15.9% | |||||||||||
87.5% | 36.8% | 18.6% | 1.04% | 5.11% | 85.7% | 11.8% | 8.18% | 2.10% | 68.5% | ||||||||
13.1% | 7.47% | 17.8% | 12.3% | 30.3% | 8.65% | 12.8% | |||||||||||
42.2% | 6.75% | 4.67% | 20.8% | 2.69% | 12.7% | 19.9% | |||||||||||
42.7% | 6.11% | 16.9% | 8.06% | 14.3% | 4.93% | 17.3% | |||||||||||
51.7% | 2.48% | 19.1% | 8.19% | 8.87% | 4.99% | 13.5% | |||||||||||
31.0% | 3.15% | 16.7% | 28.2% | 11.4% | 15.3% | 12.1% |
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