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Mar 26, 2017 · Japanese: 山 yama "mountain"; 山々 yamayama "many mountains" 人 hito "human"; 人々 hitobito "many people" while in Bahasa Indoensia: burung "bird"; burung-burung "birds" orang "human"; orang-orang "all the people" This similarity alone is definitely insufficient to conclude that Japanese is related to Austronesian.
Mar 31, 1999 · PDF | On Mar 31, 1999, Mark J. Hudson published Japanese and Austronesian: An Archeological Perspective on the Proposed Linguistic Links | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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distant genetic affiliations for both Japanese and Austronesian. According to. one such theory, Japanese is considered to be related to Altaic, including. Korean.2 This hypothesis, proposed already in the nineteenth century, is still actively supported by a number of scholars, some of them preferring to deal.
Sep 6, 1999 · The Austronesian Language Family. Austronesian is a family of languages spanning from Southeast Asia to the westernmost islands of the Pacific. Austronesian is not only geographically large, but it also contains over 1200 of the world's languages (SIL 1996). In this paper I will briefly look at the history and colonization of the areas where ...
The idea that Japanese and Austronesian may be re- lated at the level of a more ancient macro family such as Benedict's Austro- Tai would appear to be more compatible with the archeology but major ...
Peter Bellwood , James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon. The Austronesian languages form a single and relatively close-knit family, similar in its degree of internal diversity and time depth to other major language families such as Austroasiatic, Uto-Aztecan and Indo-European. Prior to AD 1500 the Austronesian languages belonged to the most widespread ...
Austronesian languages - Classification, Prehistory, Diversity: Given the size of the Austronesian family, the subgrouping of the languages is a matter of some importance, bearing on, among other things, the determination of the Austronesian homeland. Until the 1930s the branches of Austronesian were customarily identified with purely geographic labels: Indonesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, and ...
