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 | Gibraltar, United Kingdom | Lesotho | Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan | Oecusse, Timor-Leste | San Marino | Temburong District, Brunei | Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina | Vatican City | Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (1 m) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.26% | ||||||||||||||
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 24.9% | |||||||||
| 2.59% | ||||||||||||||
| 1.97% | ||||||||||||||
| 3.17% | 100% | 100% | 3.22% | |||||||||||
| 1.02% | 1.22% | |||||||||||||
| 87.5% | 2.34% | |||||||||||||
| 4.14% | 21.3% | 1.06% | ||||||||||||
| 1.93% | ||||||||||||||
| 99.1% | 1.12% | |||||||||||||
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