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3 days ago · Most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia. Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people.
17 hours ago · Hawaiian ( ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [6] is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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3 days ago · The Austronesian languages -- some 1200 languages dispersed over a large area that includes the Pacific -- form one of the world's largest language families. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori, Tongan, and Samoan (all languages of the South Pacific) as an undergraduate and on Indonesian as a graduate student.
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.
5 days ago · The Austronesian languages have a lot in common. They share grammatical structures and sounds. These similarities show they come from the same roots. This includes the ancestors who settled in the Philippines. The Austronesian Migration and Linguistic Diversity. The movement of the Austronesian people to the Philippines brought many languages ...
Yeah it's really just that and switching around F's and P's. But other languages do that with L's and R's or V's and W's. It just kind of tripped me out since I couldn't imagine a language without gendered pronouns existing, it seems like a pretty important descriptive part of language. But I was definitely wrong.
