Northern Territory

Australia, territory, population 255,069, first language English.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · AU-NT · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Language stack

The roles this state's languages play, with a share where a census gives one.

How this is measured

A label comes from the States sheet and has no share. A share comes from a census and names its basis. Both can exist for one language.

English

De facto · Sheet label

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English

Administrative · Sheet label

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English

National · Sheet label

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Role	Language
De facto	English
Administrative	English
National	English

Labels from the States sheet; no census share yet.

Official-language count: 1. Diversity below is country-level.

Language spoken at home

Share of residents by the language they speak at home, 2021. Not what they can speak: most also speak the main language.

How this is measured

Collective census categories (such as 'other languages') are left out, so shares can sum to less than 100%. Where a census lets people name several main languages, as Switzerland's does, they can sum to more.

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57.3%

2.2%

1.4%

1.3%

1.1%

0.7%

0.7%

0.7%

0.6%

0.4%

0.4%

0.4%

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1	English	57.3%
2	Tagalog	2.2%
3	Modern Greek	1.4%
4	Nepali	1.3%
5	Mandarin Chinese	1.1%
6	Eastern Panjabi	0.7%
7	Malayalam	0.7%
8	Vietnamese	0.7%
9	Standard Indonesian	0.6%
10	Hindi	0.4%
11	Sinhala	0.4%
12	Urdu	0.4%
13	Thai	0.4%
14	Yue Chinese	0.3%
15	French	0.3%
16	German	0.3%
17	Bengali	0.3%
18	Italian	0.3%
19	Portuguese	0.3%
20	Spanish	0.3%
21	Standard Arabic	0.2%
22	Gujarati	0.2%
23	Korean	0.2%
24	Tamil	0.2%
25	Afrikaans	0.1%
26	Japanese	0.1%
27	Central Khmer	0.1%
28	Russian	0.1%
29	Samoan	0.1%
30	Croatian Standard	0.0%
31	Macedonian	0.0%
32	Western Farsi	0.0%
33	Polish	0.0%
34	Serbian Standard	0.0%
35	Turkish	0.0%

Languages of Australia

Country-level shares: CLDR, with a census or survey where CLDR has none. They overlap and are never normalised.

How this is measured

Effective number of languages 1.08, Greenberg diversity 0.08, both on the raw shares and country-level.

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English

De facto official

96%

2.1%

1.9%

1.4%

1.3%

1.2%

0.9%

0.9%

0.9%

0.8%

0.7%

0.5%

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1	English	96.0%	De facto official
2	Mandarin Chinese	2.1%	—
3	Italian	1.9%	—
4	Standard Arabic	1.4%	—
5	Vietnamese	1.3%	—
6	Yue Chinese	1.2%	—
7	Eastern Panjabi	0.9%	—
8	Modern Greek	0.9%	—
9	Tagalog	0.9%	—
10	Hindi	0.8%	—
11	Spanish	0.7%	—
12	Nepali	0.5%	—

Largest 12 of 37 languages CLDR records for Australia.

How far lingua francas reach

Share able to hold a conversation, first or second language.

How this is measured

Each row carries its source tier. A Tier 1 census figure is this state's own; a Tier 3 figure is the country's, not this state's.

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English

Tier 3 country

96%

Mandarin

Tier 3 country

2.1%

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1	English	96.0%	Tier 3 country
2	Mandarin	2.1%	Tier 3 country

Other states in Australia11

Australian Capital TerritoryEnglish

Christmas IslandEnglish

Cocos (Keeling) IslandsEnglish

Jervis BayEnglish

New South WalesEnglish

Norfolk IslandEnglish

QueenslandEnglish

South AustraliaEnglish

TasmaniaEnglish

VictoriaEnglish

Western AustraliaEnglish

All states · Countries · Reach

Where these numbers come from

Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).

Labels are the States sheet's. Shares marked country-level are CLDR's for the whole country, not a measurement of this state. See Method.