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  2. 5 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 ).

  3. May 1, 2024 · The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not form a single subfamily of Austronesian but rather up to nine separate primary subfamilies.

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  4. 6 days ago · Malay language, member of the Western, or Indonesian, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family, spoken as a native language by more than 33,000,000 persons distributed over the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and the numerous smaller islands of the area, and widely used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a second language.

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  5. Apr 22, 2024 · The Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (AuSIL) is committed to serving indigenous language communities in Australia and the Timor region by means of linguistic research and documentation, translation, training, and the development of language resources.

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  6. May 7, 2024 · Her interests have shaped research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. The Austronesian languages -- some 1200 languages dispersed over a large area that includes the Pacific -- form one of the world's largest language families.

  7. Apr 20, 2024 · A list of these, with their Austronesian cognates, was given in Sagart (2005). Guillaume Jacques (2017) has studied the correspondences of the Buyang (Langjia) preinitial qa 0 – in the Kam-Tai branch. A correspondence for Buyang preinitial qa 0 – has now been observed in Hlai dialects: tsɯ²- in Baoding and kɯ 2 – in Heitu.

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