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All Austronesian languages are currently considered to derive from a single parent language, probably spoken on Taiwan something over 5000 years ago. Many scholars consider that the Austronesian language family has four highest order subgroups. Three of these subgroups comprise languages confined to Taiwan.
language is considered to have diverged over time into four major subgroups, represented as follows: In other words many scholars consider that three of the four highest-order subgroups of Austronesian are spoken on Taiwan and have been ever since the development of Proto-Austronesian. As discussed above, languages evolve by
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Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan. In terms of the number of its languages ...
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 ).
- One of the world's primary language families
2 Verb-first word order. Austronesian languages are head-initial, and many Austronesian languages, including. languages spoken at the geographical extremes of the family, are verb-initial or predicate-initial, i.e., VSO or VOS. In other Austronesian languages, the neutral word order is SVO or verb-.
around the places where Austronesian languages are actually spoken today. Nonetheless, the Austronesians were a maritime people with considerable navigational skills, and it is not unreasonable to assume that they reached regions where their languages no longer survive. Archaeology, transfer of crops and material culture
2 Verb-first word order Austronesian languages are head-initial, and many Austronesian languages—includ-ing languages spoken at the geographical extremes of the family—are verb-initial.1 In some of these languages the subject occurs at the right edge of the clause, giving
