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Isidore Dyen (16 August 1913 in Philadelphia – 14 December 2008 in Newton, Massachusetts) was an American linguist, Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University. He was one of the foremost scholars in the field of Austronesian linguistics, [1] publishing extensively on the reconstruction of Proto ...
Proto-Tsouic. Proto-Western Plains. Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify c. 4000 BCE – c. 3500 BCE in Taiwan. [1]
The Polynesian languages are a group of languages spoken in Oceania. They all belong in the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages. They are mostly spoken in Polynesia, but some are spoken in nearby Melanesia and Micronesia . There are around 30-40 Polynesian languages, with Samoan having the most speakers. [1]
Austronesian. Look up Austronesian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Austronesian may refer to: The Austronesian languages. The historical Austronesian peoples who carried Austronesian languages on their migrations. Category:
Sundanese ( / sʌndəˈniːz /: [2] basa Sunda, Sundanese pronunciation: [basa sunda]; Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ; Pegon: بَاسَا سُوْندَا) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Sundanese. It has approximately 32 million native speakers in the western third of Java; they represent about 15% of Indonesia 's ...
There are four branches: Indonesian, Melanesian (which includes Fijian), Micronesian (which includes Chamorro, spoken on Guam ), and the Polynesian languages, which include Maori, Tongan, Tahitian, and Samoan. There are c. 175 million speakers in all. Austronesian languages (Malayo-Polynesian) Family that includes Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog ...
Dayak languages is a language family which refers to the languages spoken by Dayak people who predominantly lived in Kalimantan. List of Dayak languages [ change | change source ] ISO code
