The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages. They also include indigenous ethnic minorities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Hainan, the Comoros, …

As with virtually all the lowland peoples of Maritime Southeast Asia, the Tagalog people who would eventually establish the fortified polity of Maynila were Austronesians.: 12 They had a rich, complex culture, with its own expressions of language and writing, religion, art, and music. This Austronesian culture was already in place before the cultural influences of China, Japan, the …

Jun 21, 2020 · As noted in Blust (1999) the Austronesian settlement of Taiwan may have been accomplished with bamboo sailing rafts, leaving open the possibility that the * qabaŋ was a simple dugout canoe used on interior rivers.

Mar 29, 2022 · In northern Melanesian islands, the uniparental Austronesian markers tend to be more abundant exhibiting 29.4–72.5% mtDNA and 5.3–37.7% Y-chromosome Asian DNA 13.

Jun 21, 2020 · For evidence of a wider Southeast Asian distribution of the association ‘pig’ + ‘crazy/illness ... The word for ‘pig’ has been borrowed into a number of the languages of western Micronesia from an unknown Austronesian source. In each case the borrowed morpheme ... get along with people, have good interpersonal relations, be congenial ...