[45] [47] [48] The nations and territories predominantly populated by Austronesian-speaking peoples are sometimes known collectively as Austronesia. [ 49 ] They originated from a prehistoric seaborne migration , known as the Austronesian expansion, from Taiwan , circa 3000 to …

The Austronesian languages (/ ˌ ɔː s t r ə ˈ n iː ʒ ən / AW-strə-NEE-zhən) 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). [2] They are spoken by about 328 million people (4.4% of the world population). [1] [3] This …

2025年1月29日 · Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan.In terms of the number of its languages and of their …

Austronesian languages - Classification, Prehistory, Diversity: Given the size of the Austronesian family, the subgrouping of the languages is a matter of some importance, bearing on, among other things, the determination of the Austronesian homeland. Until the 1930s the branches of Austronesian were customarily identified with purely geographic labels: Indonesian, …

Area historically regarded as being inhabited by the original Austronesian peoples and later migrations. Austronesian peoples is a term referring to people that live in Southeast Asia, Oceania and Madagascar, who are speakers of the Austronesian languages.They are thought to have originally come from the indigenous peoples of Taiwan

The Austronesian languages form a single and relatively close-knit family, similar in its degree of internal diversity and time depth to other major language families such as Austroasiatic, Uto-Aztecan and Indo-European.

The Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Mad...

1999年9月6日 · The Austronesian Language Family. Nate Blaylock Linguistics 450 Dr. Hallen. Austronesian is a family of languages spanning from Southeast Asia to the westernmost islands of the Pacific.

appearance. One would have little difficulty, for instance, in differentiating by simple visual means amongst a random mixture of Austronesian-speaking

Austronesian languages, formerly Malayo-Polynesian languages , Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan languages), and parts of mainland Southeast Asia and the island of Taiwan.