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1 day ago · Most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia. 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.
- One of the world's primary language families
2 days ago · A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
- 28 million (2022), 82 million total speakers (2022)
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1 day ago · It has many languages like Malay, Indonesian, and Javanese. The seafaring life of the Austronesian people helped spread their languages across Southeast Asia. “The Austronesian migration and subsequent interactions played a crucial role in shaping the linguistic diversity in the Philippines.” The Austronesian languages have a lot in common.
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 days ago · Citation Pawley, A 2002, 'The Austronesian dispersal: languages, technologies, people', in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (ed.), Examining the farming / language ...
3 days ago · The Isnag language has a long history of borrowing words from other languages. It is believed that the earliest loan words in the language came from neighboring languages, such as Ilocano and Kankanaey, which are also spoken in the northern part of the Philippines. These languages have had a long history of contact and trade with the Isnag ...
3 days ago · Indonesia is renowned for its remarkable linguistic diversity, with hundreds of languages spoken across the archipelago. Determining the exact number of languages in Indonesia, however, poses challenges due to various factors. Indonesia is a country with an astounding linguistic diversity, with over 700 languages spoken across its many islands.
