Country
Languages of Australia
The Linguasphere Register records 13 entries for Australia, spread across 5 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.
13Register entries
5Sectors present
10Zones
0Language entries
2= AUSTRALASIA 3= AUSTRONESIAN 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 7= SINO-INDIAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN
Register entries recorded in Australia
| Code | Entry | Level | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
20= | ARAFURA | Zone | Covers the "Arafura + Torres" reference area (within the "Trans-New Guinea" hypothesis). |
28= | NORTH-AUSTRALIA | Zone | Covers the "North-Australia" reference area (within the "Australian" hypothesis). |
29= | TRANS-AUSTRALIA | Zone | Covers the "Transaustralia" reference area, composed of the "Pama-Nyungan" hypothesis (sets 29-A to 29-X, within the … |
31= | FILIPINIC | Zone | |
51= | ROMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
52-A | NORSK + FRYSK | Set | GERMANIC,. |
52-AC | FRYSK + DEUTSCH | Chain | CONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. … |
52-ACB | DEUTSCH + NEDERLANDS | Net | GERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below … |
52= | GERMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
56= | HELLENIC | Zone | Covers the "Greek", "Hellenic" or Helleniki + Tsakonia set of languages, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental … |
59= | INDIC | Zone | Covers the "Indic", "Indo-Aryan" or Hindi + Domari set of languages, part of the "Indo-Iranian" grouping within the … |
79= | SINITIC | Zone | Covers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity. |
90= | ATLANTIC | Zone | Covers the "Atlantic" ("old West-Atlantic less Mel") reference area, within the "Transafrican" continental affinity. |
Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.