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1. phys.org › news › 2016-01-austronesian-languagesNew research into the origins of the Austronesian languages

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   Jan 28, 2016 · THE languages known as Austronesian are spoken by more than 380 million people in territories that include Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific.

2. linguistics.byu.edu › reports › austronesian2The Austronesian Language Family - Linguistics

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   Aug 2, 1999 · J. Nicole Stevens. Ling 450. August 2, 1999. The Austronesian Language family includes between 900 and 1000 different languages, possibly more languages than any other language family. It extends from Madagascar to Easter Island, and includes places as far away from one another as Taiwan and New Zealand (O’Grady & Dobrovolsky, 1997, p. 373).

3. pinaywise.com › philippines-facts › discover-the-170Discover the 170 Languages of the Philippines - pinaywise.com

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   Mar 17, 2024 · The Philippines boasts a staggering 170 languages, each with unique cultural significance. Tagalog is the most widely spoken indigenous language, but the country has eight major indigenous languages in total. Historical, cultural, and political factors have influenced the evolution of Philippine languages.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Symmetrical_voiceSymmetrical voice - Wikipedia

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   Symmetrical voice is best known from the languages of the Philippines, but is also found in Taiwan's Formosan languages, as well as in Borneo, Northern Sulawesi, and Madagascar, and has been reconstructed for the ancestral Proto-Austronesian language.

5. static.hlt.bme.hu › Austronesian_languagesAustronesian languages - Wikipedia - BME

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   The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia. [2] Austronesian languages are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9%), making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers.

6. www.jstor.org › stable › jChapter 1. The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and ...

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   Peter Bellwood , James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon. The Austronesian languages form a single and relatively close-knit family, similar in its degree of internal diversity and time depth to other major language families such as Austroasiatic, Uto-Aztecan and Indo-European. Prior to AD 1500 the Austronesian languages belonged to the most widespread ...

7. www.britannica.com › topic › Austronesian-languagesAustronesian languages - Morphology, Canonical Shape

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   The Austronesian languages of Taiwan, the Philippines, northern Borneo, and Sulawesi and some other languages (such as Malagasy, Palauan, and Chamorro) are characterized by a very rich morphology, which functions in both verb-forming and noun-forming processes. Some languages use affixation to encode many types of syntactic relationships that ...