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Language Families

Australia & OceaniaCultural

The predominant language families of Australia and Oceania. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

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A 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.

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Language Families

Women in the Workforce

Austronesian

Austronesian and Papuan

English

English and areas of persisting indigenous languages

Papuan

Class

Rank

Percent

81.6%7.90%15.2%24.9%86.2%
87.5%
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