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Australian Aboriginal languages and Languages of Oceania

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Difference between Australian Aboriginal languages and Languages of Oceania

Australian Aboriginal languages vs. Languages of Oceania

The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated twenty-eight language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. Native languages of Oceania fall into three major geographic groups.

Similarities between Australian Aboriginal languages and Languages of Oceania

Australian Aboriginal languages and Languages of Oceania have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Austronesian languages, Creole language, English language, French language, Language family, New Guinea, Pama–Nyungan languages, Papuan languages, Spanish language.

Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia.

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Pama–Nyungan languages

The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of indigenous Australian languages, containing perhaps 300 languages.

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Papuan languages

The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Australian Aboriginal languages and Languages of Oceania Comparison

Australian Aboriginal languages has 199 relations, while Languages of Oceania has 38. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 3.80% = 9 / (199 + 38).

References

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