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There are two primary hypotheses for the location of the Austronesian homeland. One is Taiwan, with a subsequent population spread south through the Philippines and then east and west, which resulted in the various branches of the Austronesian languages (Bellwood 1980, 1983; Dahl 1973; Shutler and Marek 1975). The other hypothesis places
Map showing the distribution of language families; the pink color shows where Austronesian languages are spoken. This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family originating from Taiwan, that is widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar.
Language was a little more complex, with the two main branches of Austronesian languages (Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan) being split up into more than 500 further sub-branches. However, the fact that cultures as far removed in terms of distance as the Philippines and Madagascar shared elements of these languages does work in favour of Bellwood ...
The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, [44] are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.
The Austronesian language family is the second largest on Earth in number of languages, and was the largest in geographical extent before the European colonial expansions of the past five centuries. This alone makes the determination of its homeland a research question of the first order. There is now near-universal agreement among both linguists and archaeologists that the Austronesian ...
Austronesian languages - Structure, Phonology, Syntax: Although some linguists have questioned the usefulness of the notion of subject in Philippine languages, it remains a pivotal concept in typological studies of word order. The great majority of Formosan and Philippine languages are verb–subject–object (VSO) or VOS. This statement is true of virtually all the Formosan languages, with ...
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia —except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language —and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.
