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3 days ago · The Austronesian language family has been established by the linguistic comparative method on the basis of cognate sets, sets of words from multiple languages, which are similar in sound and meaning which can be shown to be descended from the same ancestral word in Proto-Austronesian according to regular rules. Some cognate sets are very stable.
1 day ago · The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, 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.
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1 day ago · Proto-Torres-Banks (abbr. PTB) is the reconstructed ancestor of the seventeen languages of the Torres and Banks Islands of Vanuatu. Like all indigenous languages of Vanuatu, it belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages . More specifically, it is the shared ancestor of the following modern languages: Hiw, Lo-Toga, Lehali ...
May 18, 2024 · The Austronesian language family, one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, has long fascinated linguists and geneticists alike. Its speakers, who today number over 380 million ...
3 days ago · The core Pohnpeian vocabulary is of Austronesian origin, specifically Oceanic, tracing back to Proto-Micronesian roots. Some examples: Riau (house) Waa (canoe) Sair (fish) Over time, Pohnpeian incorporated loanwords from other Micronesian languages, Polynesian languages like Hawaiian, as well as European languages during the colonial era.
May 17, 2024 · Māori language, Eastern Polynesian subgroup of the Eastern Austronesian ( Oceanic) languages, spoken in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. Since the Māori Language Act of 1987, it has been one of the two official languages of New Zealand. Estimates of the number of Māori speakers range from 100,000 to 150,000.