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May 24, 2024 · With approximately 1,200 members, the Austronesian language family includes about one-fifth of the world’s languages. Only the Niger-Congo family of Africa approaches it in number of languages, although both the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families have considerably more speakers.
Below are two charts comparing list of numbers of 1–10 and thirteen words in Austronesian languages; spoken in Taiwan, the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Chams or Champa (in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam), East Timor, Papua, New Zealand, Hawaii, Madagascar, Borneo, Kiribati, Caroline Islands, and Tuvalu.
Jul 22, 2020 · Austroasiatic languages (also known as the Mon-Khmer languages) are one of Southeast Asia’s largest language families. The family contains a whopping 160 distinct languages, spoken over a broad geographical area. The best-known Austroasiatic language is Vietnamese.
Austronesian languages are written either in the Roman alphabet or in alphabets based on Indian and Arabic scripts. English words of Austronesian origin include taboo, tattoo, and ukelele (from Polynesian); amok, gingham, and kapok (from Malay); batik and junk (from Javanese); and boondocks (from Tagalog, or Filipino, bundok,"mountain").
Hawaiian is an Austronesian language spoken by about 8,000 people on the Hawaiian islands. Hawaiian first appeared in writing in the early 19th century in a version of the Latin alphabet developed bymissionaries, who started to visit the Hawaiian islands from 1820 onwards.
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