Austronesian peoples - Wikipedia The term "Austronesian", or more accurately "Austronesian-speaking peoples", came to refer to people who speak the languages of the Austronesian language family
Austronesian languages | Origin, History, Language Map, Facts . . . Major Austronesian languages include Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, the Batak languages, Acehnese, Balinese, and Buginese of western Indonesia; and Malagasy of Madagascar
The Austronesian Language Family - Linguistics 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 contains over 1200 of the world's languages (SIL 1996)
AUSTRONESIAN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The original inhabitants, whose descendants now make up a small minority in Taiwan, were Austronesian tribes who ruled themselves in a number of chiefdoms
Austronesian People, their origin and skills - Medium They speak languages that belong to the Austronesian language family, which traces its origin to the Proto-Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan thousands of years ago
25 Matthew Austronesian Spriggs, Paul G raghty, Yue-C . . . Figure 25 3 The Austronesian dispersal across Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans line indicates the boundary of Austronesian expansion The arrows indicate the putative dispersal routes of Austronesian s eakers Approximate estimates of colonization dates are based on Rieth and Cochrane (2018) and other literat
Austronesian languages - Wikipedia Approximately twenty Austronesian languages are official in their respective countries By the number of languages they include, Austronesian and Niger–Congo are the two largest language families in the world They each contain roughly one-fifth of the world's languages
Austronesian peoples - Wikiwand The term "Austronesian", or more accurately "Austronesian-speaking peoples", came to refer to people who speak the languages of the Austronesian language family