Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Region›AustraliaBrowse ByAustraliaRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.FactsAustraliaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested840 1AustraliaFilter Results108 entriesMacro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (21)Austronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (18)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (3)East Papuan Language Phylum (11)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (33)New Guinea and Pacific Sign Languages (2)Polynesian Languages (3)Sepik Languages (10)Trans-New Guinea Languages (28)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllTrans-New Guinea (3)Speaker Count BandAll1 to 570 (5)24,600 to 795,000 (4)592 to 23,000 (18)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (2)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (17)Classification StatusAllEstablished (63)Number of LanguagesAll1 (26)2 (8)16 to 1,408 (24)3 to 5 (12)6 to 15 (19)In GroupAllAustronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (18)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (3)East Papuan Language Phylum (11)New Guinea and Pacific Language Isolates and Small Families (33)New Guinea and Pacific Sign Languages (2)Polynesian Languages (3)Sepik Languages (10)Trans-New Guinea Languages (28)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 8Trans-FlyAustraliaTrans-New GuineaAustraliaWestern Oceanic languagesAustraliaWiruAustraliaYam languagesAustraliaYeleAustraliaYellow River languagesAustraliaYuatAustraliaShowing 101 to 108 of 108, page 3 of 3.← Previous123Sources1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Papua New GuineaWikimedia FoundationLead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Quote, Lead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Ethnologue, among other sources, state that there are 840 living languages spoken in the country, although estimates vary due to the distinction between a language and a dialect.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.