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Approximately twenty Austronesian languages are official in their respective countries (see the list of major and official Austronesian languages). By the number of languages they include, Austronesian and Niger–Congo are the two largest language families in the world.
- Proto-Austronesian Language
Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a...
- Austronesian peoples
The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as...
- Proto-Austronesian Language
This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family originating from Taiwan, that is widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar .
LanguageSpeakersNative NameOfficial Status639,210Na Vosa Vakaviti100,000,000 (L1 & L2) 20,000,000 (L1) ...Wikang Filipino120,000Taetae ni Kiribati120,000 (L2)Hiri MotuPeople also ask
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Language families. Places where Austronesian languages are spoken are colored pink. The Austronesian languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Southeast Asia and on islands in the Pacific Ocean. List of Austronesian languages. Anus; Indonesian; Fijian; Hawaiian; Javanese; Malay; Māori; Sundanese; Tagalog; Tuvaluan
Austronesian languages - Vocabulary, Dialects, Classification: About 5,000 unaffixed stems have been reconstructed for Proto-Austronesian, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, or Proto-Western-Malayo-Polynesian. Although the Indo-European languages have a far richer textual tradition, probably no language family excels Austronesian in the richness of vocabulary reconstructed through the comparative method ...
Kuri language (Austronesian) Not to be confused with Nabi language. / -2.81; 134.10. Kuri, or Nabi, is a small Austronesian language of the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea. Lexically it is very close to Irarutu .
