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    • Twenty Austronesian languages

      • Approximately twenty Austronesian languages are official in their respective countries (see the list of major and official Austronesian languages).
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  2. 3 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.

  3. 1 day 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 ...

    • c. 270 million (2020)
    • c. 855,000 (2006)
    • c. 24 million (2016)
    • c. 109.3 million (2020)
  4. May 5, 2024 · 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.

    • Native: 2,000 (2007)
  5. May 2, 2024 · Here we provide the first integrated test of the effects of five historical sociodemographic and geographic variables on three measures of linguistic diversification among 50 Austronesian languages: rates of word gain, loss and overall lexical turnover.

  6. May 5, 2024 · How many languages are spoken in Indonesia 2023? According to available data, there are around 718 local languages spoken in Indonesia. Most of these languages belong to the Austronesian language family and Papuan languages.

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  7. 4 days ago · Icelandic is also very young, being separated from Norwegian by about 900 years of evolution. Some Pacific creoles are younger, such as Norfuk and Pitcairnese, but they are grouped under the Austronesian group as well. 18. There are many families of languages in the world which are not interrelated.

  8. Many traditions name their homeland as Hawaiki. Scholars of the Austronesian languages categorize the Māori language (te reo Māori) as a member of the eastern Polynesian language group that is closely related to Tahitian and slightly more distantly related to Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) and Marquesan. All of these languages are then more ...

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