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 | Caledonian and Hercynian (or Appalachian) remnants | Isolated volcanic areas | Alpine system | Sedimentary covers | Rifted shield areas | Laurasian shields | Gondwana shields | |
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| 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | 85.4% | 19.3% | ||||||
| 55.8% | 71.3% | |||||||||||
| 38.0% | 65.2% | 56.6% | ||||||||||
| 20.5% | 76.8% | 4.69% | ||||||||||
| 11.2% | 27.6% | 54.3% | 2.84% | 4.06% | ||||||||
| 35.5% | 97.4% | 44.6% | 50.7% | 7.06% | 50.3% | 6.93% | ||||||
| 1.81% | 52.7% | 30.3% | 51.9% | |||||||||
| 87.5% | 20.9% | 11.7% | 18.7% | 85.2% | 66.6% | |||||||
| 8.52% | 31.9% | 30.9% | 29.9% | |||||||||
| 23.9% | 38.4% | 51.7% | ||||||||||
| 95.7% | 5.08% | |||||||||||
| 4.12% | 51.2% | 52.5% | 18.0% | 23.4% | ||||||||
| 10.8% | 10.8% | 20.1% | 27.2% | 76.1% | ||||||||
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