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Area historically regarded as being inhabited by the original Austronesian peoples and later migrations. Austronesian peoples is a term referring to people that live in Southeast Asia, Oceania and Madagascar, who are speakers of the Austronesian languages. They are thought to have originally come from the indigenous peoples of Taiwan . This ...
Languages of Melanesia. Most of the languages of Melanesia are members of the Austronesian language family or one of the many Papuan families. By one count, there are 1,319 languages in Melanesia, scattered across a small amount of land. The proportion of 716 sq. kilometers per language is by far the most dense rate of languages in relation to ...
Malagasy ( / ˌmæləˈɡæsi / MAL-ə-GASS-ee; [2] Malagasy pronunciation: [malaˈɡasʲ]) is an Austronesian language and dialect continuum spoken in Madagascar. The standard variety, called Official Malagasy, is an official language of Madagascar alongside French. Malagasy is the westernmost Malayo-Polynesian language, originating in ...
南島語系 (英語: Austronesian languages )是主要由 南岛民族 所使用的语言,是世界現今唯一主要分布在島嶼上的一個 語系 ,包括約1300種語言。. 其分布主要位于南太平洋群岛,以及 臺灣 、 夏威夷群島 、 越南 南部 、 菲律宾 、 马来群岛 ,東達 南太平洋 东部 ...
Tan is Austronesian and grey the historical range of Australian languages. The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor by around 4 million people. [1] It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not ...
Contact between the Austronesian and Papuan that resulted on various instances on mixed languages, such as Maisin and various languages. Some colonial languages include Portuguese in East Timor, Russian in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Japanese in Ogasawara and Palau, and Spanish in Easter Island and Micronesia. List
Primary language family[edit] The currently most supported view is that the Japonic languages (sometimes also "Japanic") are their own primary language family, consisting of Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. The Hachijō language is sometimes classified as a third branch of the Japonic language family, but it is otherwise seen to be a very ...