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    • The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken by about 328 million people (4.4% of the world population). This makes it the fifth-largest language family by num… See more

    EthnicityAustronesian peoples
    Geographic distributionTaiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Hainan (China), and Oceania
    Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
    Proto-languageProto-Austronesian
    Typological characteristics

    The Austronesian languages overall possess phoneme inventories which are smaller than the world average. Around 90% of the Austronesian languages have inventories of 19–25 sounds (15–20 consonant… See more

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    The Austronesian language family has been established by the linguistic comparative method on the basis of cognate sets, sets of words from multiple languages, which are similar in sound and meaning w… See more

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    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, making it difficult to recognize boundarie… See more

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  1. Javanese (100 million) Tagalog (Filipino) (47 million native, ~100 million total) Indonesian (42 million native, ~270 million total) Sundanese (42 million) Malay (30 million) Cebuano (22 million native, ~30 million total) Malagasy (17 million) Madurese (14 million)

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    List of Austronesian languages Anus Indonesian Fijian Hawaiian Javanese Malay Māori

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    What are Austronesian languages?
    The Austronesian languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Southeast Asia and on islands in the Pacific Ocean .

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    What is a Proto Austronesian language?
    Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify c.4000 BCE – c. 3500 BCE in Taiwan. [ 1 ]

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    How did Austronesian language get its name?
    The term Austronesian itself was coined by Wilhelm Schmidt (German austronesisch, based on Latin auster "south wind" and Greek νῆσος "island"). The family is aptly named, as the vast majority of Austronesian languages are spoken on islands: only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia.

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    How many languages are in the Austronesian language family?
    With approximately 1,200 members, the Austronesian language family includes about one-fifth of the world’s languages. Only the Niger-Congo family of Africa approaches it in number of languages, although both the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families have considerably more speakers.

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    How many words are spoken in Austronesian languages?
    Below are two charts comparing list of numbers of 1–10 and thirteen words in Austronesian languages; spoken in Taiwan, the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Chams or Champa (in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam), East Timor, Papua, New Zealand, Hawaii, Madagascar, Borneo, Kiribati, Caroline Islands, and Tuvalu.

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    Which languages have a wide distribution in the Austronesian family?
    Malay and its closest relatives (Iban, Minangkabau, and so on), many Philippine languages, and some languages in eastern Indonesia (Manggarai of the Lesser Sundas, Yamdena of the southern Moluccas) show very high concentrations of vocabulary items that have a wide distribution in the Austronesian family.

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    Languages of the Austronesian family are today spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the global population), making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers. Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around …

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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. Austronesian languages are …

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    Article History. Formerly: Malayo-Polynesian languages. Key People: Leonard Bloomfield. Related Topics: Indonesian languages. Oceanic languages. Formosan languages. South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages. …

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