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 | Mongolian | Uigur and other Turkic languages | Tribal languages of eastern Taiwan | Japanese | Korean | Gan | Mandarin | Min (including Fujianese and Taiwanese) | Tibetan | Wu (including Shanghaiese) | Xiang | Yue (Cantonese) | Zhuang | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||
| 87.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3.96% | 1.10% | 26.7% | 60.3% | 57.5% | 1.53% | 56.9% | 72.3% | 18.5% | 1.52% | 2.03% | 3.31% | 1.42% | ||||||
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