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- Major Austronesian languages with the highest number of speakers are Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, and Filipino (Tagalog).
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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.
- One of the world's primary language families
The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, [44] are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.
- c. 270 million (2020)
- c. 855,000 (2006)
- c. 24 million (2016)
- c. 109.3 million (2020)
- Sound System
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Writing
Despite the size and diversity of the Austronesian language family, its members share some commonalities in their sound systems. Their sound inventories range from very simple to average. For instance, Hawai’ian has only 13 phonemes.
Austronesian languages are agglutinative, i.e., they form words attaching prefixes or suffixes to roots with basic meanings to create derivatives. Words can be very long. They also use reduplication to mark grammatical relations.
The vocabulary of Austronesian languages is of common Austronesian stock with borrowings from other languages such as Arabic, Sanskrit, Portuguese,Spanish, Dutch, and English. The sources of borrowing vary from language to language. A comparison of a few common words in a variety of Austronesian languages shows the wide divergence in their vocabula...
Austronesian languages are written with different writing systems, some being based on the Roman alphabet and others on alphabets derived from Indian or Arabic scripts. Several examples are given below.
Javanese, Sundanese, Malay and Tagalog are the largest Austronesian languages. Distribution. Austronesian is spoken in Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, in some coastal areas of New Guinea, and in the archipelagos of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
The Austronesian, or Malayo-Polynesian language family, which is comprised of between 800 and 1200 languages, is thought to be the most widespread and the second largest language phyla in the world. Some 270 million people are speakers of Austronesian languages (“The Austronesian Language Phylum”), living in varied countries such as China ...
Jan 22, 2009 · Gray’s group have built a massive database of Austronesian basic vocabulary – words for common things like relatives, colours, numbers and simple verbs. Words like these (the Austronesian ...
Austronesia Languages (AN) Non-Austronesian Languages (NAN) Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia Fall under which Language group? Oceanic (Eastern Malayo Polynesian)
