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6 days ago · Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people. For example, Indonesian is spoken by around 197.7 million people. This makes it the eleventh most-spoken language in the world.
3 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · Polynesia [a] ( UK: / ˌpɒlɪˈniːziə / POL-in-EE-zee-ə, US: /- ˈniːʒə / -EE-zhə) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians.
May 23, 2024 · Austronesia: 1 n islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia) Example of: archipelago a group of many islands in a large body of water
2 days ago · The Manunggul jar was a symbol of the National Museum’s important role in spearheading the preservation the cultural heritage—pamana—using multi-disciplinary techniques. It was a testament of how art can be a vessel of history and culture with the help of scholars. In this light, a simple jar became the embodiment of the history ...
3 days ago · Rapa Nui or Rapanui (English: / ˌ r æ p ə ˈ n uː i /, Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]), also known as Pascuan (/ ˈ p æ s k j u ə n /) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family.
May 23, 2024 · This body, with 61 tattoos, was found embedded in glacial ice in the Alps, and was dated to 3250 BCE. [3] [5] In 2018, the oldest figurative tattoos in the world were discovered on two mummies from Egypt which are dated between 3351 and 3017 BCE. [6] Ancient tattooing was widely practiced among the Austronesian people.
