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4 days ago · The Austronesian languages ( / ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən /) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples ). [1] They are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the world population) [citation ...
5 days ago · Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan.
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2 days ago · Languages of the Austronesian family are today spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the global population), making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers. Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard, named Indonesian), Javanese, and Filipino ...
4 days 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.
2 days ago · Language documentation and cultural practices in the Austronesian world: papers from 12-ICAL Citation Arka, I Wayan, Seri Malini, N & Puspani, I, eds, 2015, Language documentation and cultural practices in the Austronesian world: papers from 12-ICAL , Asia-Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, Australia.
4 days ago · Citation Pawley, A 2002, 'The Austronesian dispersal: languages, technologies, people', in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (ed.), Examining the farming / language ...
4 days ago · Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation Citation Bellwood, P 2004, 'Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives , ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 102-118.
