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  1. Las lenguas austronesias constituyen una familia lingüística formada por más de 1250 lenguas 3 que se distribuyen entre la isla de Madagascar, el archipiélago malayo y Oceanía. 4 El nombre de la familia deriva del término griego austronesia, 'islas del sur'. Los pueblos que hablan estas lenguas suelen ser llamados pueblos austronesios.

  2. Major Austronesian languages include Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, the Batak languages, Acehnese, Balinese, and Buginese of western Indonesia; and Malagasy of Madagascar. Each of these languages has more than one ...

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  4. This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family originating from Taiwan, that is widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar . Official languages. Sovereign states.

    Language
    Speakers
    Native Name
    Official Status
    639,210
    Na Vosa Vakaviti
    100,000,000 (L1 & L2) 20,000,000 (L1) ...
    Wikang Filipino
    120,000
    Taetae ni Kiribati
    120,000 (L2)
    Hiri Motu
  5. Austronesian languages - Classification, Prehistory, Diversity: Given the size of the Austronesian family, the subgrouping of the languages is a matter of some importance, bearing on, among other things, the determination of the Austronesian homeland. Until the 1930s the branches of Austronesian were customarily identified with purely geographic labels: Indonesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, and ...

  6. the Austronesian language family in its entirety. Topics covered include: the physical and cultural background, official and national languages, largest and smallest languages in all major geographical regions, language contact, sound systems, linguistic palaeontology, morphology, syntax, the history of scholarship on Austronesian languages ...

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