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- With approximately 1,200 members, the Austronesian language family includes about one-fifth of the world’s languages.
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5 days ago · With approximately 1,200 members, the Austronesian language family includes about one-fifth of the world’s languages. Only the Niger-Congo family of Africa approaches it in number of languages, although both the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families have considerably more speakers.
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4 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.
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.
4 days ago · Citation Pawley, A 2002, 'The Austronesian dispersal: languages, technologies, people', in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (ed.), Examining the farming / language ...
16 hours ago · The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in China’s Taiwan region, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.
16 hours ago · The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in China’s Taiwan region, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.
