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 | 280 and above | 260–279 | 240–259 | 220–239 | 200–219 | 180–199 | 160–179 | 140–159 | 120–139 | 100–119 | 80–99 | Less than 80 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 30.3% | 51.5% | 53.3% | 37.8% | 31.4% | 29.4% | 3.01% | |||||||||
| 53.8% | 71.3% | 64.6% | 100% | |||||||||||||||||
| 22.2% | 39.2% | 38.8% | 23.0% | 48.3% | 29.3% | |||||||||||||||
| 24.2% | 10.8% | 32.1% | 20.0% | 10.7% | ||||||||||||||||
| 67.9% | 1.54% | 1.15% | 23.6% | 32.7% | 37.1% | 3.32% | ||||||||||||||
| 100% | 3.17% | 20.4% | 20.7% | 37.8% | 46.8% | 34.8% | 33.8% | 79.7% | 12.5% | |||||||||||
| 8.19% | 16.7% | 28.7% | 36.0% | 25.2% | 9.12% | 9.14% | 13.1% | |||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 39.9% | 47.7% | 8.87% | 62.1% | 61.7% | 100% | 1.47% | 98.6% | 100% | 99.6% | ||||||||||
| 16.8% | 5.48% | 11.6% | 14.6% | 1.79% | 17.2% | 14.4% | 23.3% | 28.2% | 21.2% | |||||||||||
| 4.91% | 9.95% | 44.8% | 47.2% | |||||||||||||||||
| 44.2% | 25.1% | 71.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 44.5% | 47.7% | 12.8% | 13.5% | 24.0% | 29.3% | |||||||||||||||
| 3.98% | 12.4% | 32.2% | 38.6% | 22.5% | 44.2% | 32.5% | ||||||||||||||
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