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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Austronesian_languagesAustronesian languages - Wikipedia

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   Apr 9, 2024 · Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named "Indonesian"), [2] Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog [a], Malagasy and Cebuano. According to some estimates, the family contains 1,257 languages, which is the second most of any language family. [4]

   • Proto-Austronesian Language

     Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a...

   • Austronesian peoples

     Languages from the family are today spoken by about 386...

2. www.britannica.com › topic › Austroasiatic-languagesAustroasiatic languages | Mon-Khmer, Munda & Vietic | Britannica

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   Mar 22, 2024 · Austroasiatic languages, stock of some 150 languages spoken by more than 65 million people scattered throughout Southeast Asia and eastern India. Most of these languages have numerous dialects. Khmer, Mon, and Vietnamese are culturally the most important and have the longest recorded history.

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   What are Austronesian languages?

   • Major Austronesian languages are Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard, named Indonesian ), Javanese, and Filipino ( Tagalog ). The family contains 1,257 languages, the second most of any language family.

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   How many words are spoken in Austronesian languages?

   • Below are two charts comparing list of numbers of 1–10 and thirteen words in Austronesian languages; spoken in Taiwan, the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Chams or Champa (in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam ), East Timor, Papua, New Zealand, Hawaii, Madagascar, Borneo, Kiribati, Caroline Islands, and Tuvalu .

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   How did Austronesian scripts differ from Semitic languages?

   • As a result, the Austronesian adaptations such as the Jawi and the Pegon scripts have been modified with a system of diacritics that encode sounds, both vowels and consonants, native to Austronesian languages but absent in Semitic languages.

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   How is the Austronesian language family established?

   • The Austronesian language family has been established by the linguistic comparative method on the basis of cognate sets, sets of words from multiple languages, which are similar in sound and meaning which can be shown to be descended from the same ancestral word in Proto-Austronesian according to regular rules. Some cognate sets are very stable.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Albanian_languageAlbanian language - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · Albanian (endonym: shqip ⓘ, gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ], or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.

   • Native speakers: 6.1 to 7.5 million (2017)
   • voiced: d͡z

   • Affricate: t͡s
   • voiceless: t͡ʃ

5. www.britannica.com › topic › Malagasy-languagesMalagasy languages | Austronesian, Madagascar, Creole

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   Mar 25, 2024 · Merina language. Western Malayo-Polynesian languages. Malagasy languages, a cluster of languages spoken on Madagascar and adjacent islands and belonging to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages. The various Malagasy dialects are all closely related, having diversified only in the last 2,000 years when Madagascar was settled ...

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6. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › Austronesian languageAustronesian language - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

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   Apr 1, 2024 · Definitions of Austronesian language. noun. the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia. synonyms: Austronesian. see more.

7. halmahera.hypotheses.org › 747What are ‘Papuan’ languages? – Bäume, Wellen, Inseln – Trees ...

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   Apr 2, 2024 · The Austronesian languages are a large language family, spread all the way from Madagascar to Hawaii. As you can see in the map below, some Austronesian languages are spoken on New Guinea.