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2 days ago · The Austronesian languages ( / ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən /) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples ). [1] They are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the world population ).
4 days ago · Published May 18, 2024. The Austronesian language family, one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, has long fascinated linguists and geneticists alike. Its speakers, who today ...
1 day ago · 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)
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 · Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, [2] [3] and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, [4] are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 569,000 or 2.38% of the island 's population.
1 day ago · A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
2 days ago · Cambodia, country on the Indochinese mainland of Southeast Asia. Cambodia is largely a land of plains and great rivers and lies amid important overland and river trade routes linking China to India and Southeast Asia. The influences of many Asian cultures, alongside those of France and the United States, can be seen in the capital, Phnom Penh ...
