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Austronesian. Dayak; Proto-language: Proto-Dayak: ... South Sulawesi. Map of Dayak languages in Kalimantan. Dayak languages is a language family which refers to the ...
Sundanese ( / sʌndəˈniːz /: [2] basa Sunda, Sundanese pronunciation: [basa sunda]; Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ; Pegon: بَاسَا سُوْندَا) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Sundanese. It has approximately 32 million native speakers in the western third of Java; they represent about 15% of Indonesia 's ...
Proto-Polynesian. Proto-Central Pacific (abbreviated as PCP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Central Pacific languages. It belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages . It was first proposed by George W. Grace in 1959, [1] who also named the subgroup in 1967. [2] It was reconstructed by C.F. Hockett in 1976.
The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages are spoken by only two million people. The largest individual Oceanic languages are Eastern Fijian ...
Yami language ( Chinese: 雅美語 ), also known as Tao language ( Chinese: 達悟語 ), is a Malayo-Polynesian and Philippine language spoken by the Tao people of Orchid Island, 46 kilometers southeast of Taiwan. It is a member of the Ivatan dialect continuum . Yami is known as ciriciring no Tao 'human speech' by its native speakers.
Maʼanyan language. Maanyan or Maʼanyan (also Maanjan or Maanyak Dayak) is an Austronesian language belonging to the East Barito languages. It is spoken by about 150,000 Ma'anyan people (one of the Dayak peoples) living in the province of Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is most closely related to the Malagasy language ...
The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia. [2] Austronesian languages are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9%), making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers.
