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 | Albanian | Baltic | Basque | Celtic | Germanic | Greek | Hungarian | Romance | Slavic | Turkic | Uralic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||
| 98.9% | 99.6% | 2.48% | 2.34% | 67.3% | 66.3% | 29.7% | 47.1% | 71.9% | 4.30% | 31.1% | ||||||
| 87.5% | 51.2% | |||||||||||||||
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