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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languagesThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). There are also a number of speakers in continental Asia. They are spoken by about 386 million people … See more
From the standpoint of historical linguistics, the place of origin (in linguistic terminology, Urheimat) of the Austronesian languages ( See more
Genealogical links have been proposed between Austronesian and various families of East and Southeast Asia.
Austro-Tai
An Austro-Tai proposal linking Austronesian and the Kra-Dai languages of the southeastern … See moreThe Austronesian language family has been established by the linguistic comparative method on the basis of cognate sets, … See more
The internal structure of the Austronesian languages is complex. The family consists of many similar and closely related languages with large numbers of dialect continua, … See more
Most Austronesian languages have Latin-based writing systems today. Some non-Latin-based writing systems are listed below.
• Brahmi script
• Arabic script
• Hangul – once used to write the Cia-Cia language but the project is no longer … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licenseImages of Austronesian languages
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Austronesian-languagesMajor languages. Major Austronesian languages include Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, …
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17 rows · Dialects of major Austronesian languages. Banyumas Javanese (15,000,000 …
See all 17 rows on en.wikipedia.orgLANGUAGE SPEAKERS NATIVE NAME OFFICIAL STATUS Fijian 639,210 Na Vosa Vakaviti Fiji Filipino 20,000,000 (L1) 80,000,000 (L2) Wikang Filipino Philippines Gilbertese 120,000 Taetae ni Kiribati Kiribati Hawaiian 24,000 ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Hawaii
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Austronesian languages, formerly Malayo-Polynesian languages, Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, …
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The Austronesian language family includes between 1,000 and 1,200 languages, which represents around one fifth of the languages spoken in the world. 20% of the languages …
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As the time depth for the evolution of Austronesian languages is relatively shallow, lexically and structurally they are less divergent than one might have expected regarding the size and geographical spread of the family. Javanese, …
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Sep 6, 1999 · Austronesian is a family of languages spanning from Southeast Asia to the westernmost islands of the Pacific. Austronesian is not only geographically large, but it also …
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Austronesian languages sometimes use mathematical bases other than ten. Bam is a Sepik-Madang language which uses base 4. Therefore, ten is described as ‘four-two and two,’ twelve …
What are Austronesian languages? - Southeast Asian Archaeology
https://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2021/12/...Dec 7, 2021 · We call these languages “Austronesian”, from the Latin word for “southern” (“austro”) and the Greek word for “islands” (“nesos”). Comparative language and DNA studies …
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