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- Austronesian_languages abstract "The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families. Otto Dempwolff, a German scholar, was the first researcher to extensively explore Austronesian using the comparative method. Another German scholar, Wilhelm Schmidt, coined the German word austronesisch which comes from Latin auster "south wind" plus Greek nêsos "island". The name Austronesian was formed from the same roots. 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. Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people and one Austronesian language, Malay, is spoken by 180 million people, making it the 8th most spoken language in the world. Twenty or so Austronesian languages are official in their respective countries (see the list of Austronesian languages).Different sources count languages differently, but Austronesian and Niger–Congo are the two largest language families in the world, each having roughly one-fifth of the total languages counted in the world. The geographical span of Austronesian was the largest of any language family before the spread of Indo-European in the colonial period, ranging from Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa to Easter Island in the eastern Pacific. Hawaiian, Rapanui, and Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar) are the geographic outliers of the Austronesian family.According to Robert Blust (1999), Austronesian is divided in several primary branches, all but one of which are found exclusively on Taiwan. The Formosan languages of Taiwan are grouped into as many as nine first-order subgroups of Austronesian. All Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan (including its offshore Yami language) belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch, sometimes called Extra-Formosan.".
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- Austronesian_languages wikiPageExternalLink Comparative_Austronesian_Studies.pdf.
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- Austronesian_languages wikiPageExternalLink Appendix:Swadesh_lists.
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- Austronesian_languages wikiPageID "58800".
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- Austronesian_languages child Malayo-Polynesian_languages.
- Austronesian_languages child Puyuma_language.
- Austronesian_languages child Rukai_language.
- Austronesian_languages child Tsou_language.
- Austronesian_languages child "other Formosan".
- Austronesian_languages date "20041122214717".
- Austronesian_languages family "one of the world's major language families, with [[#Distant relations".
- Austronesian_languages familycolor "Austronesian".
- Austronesian_languages glotto "aust1307".
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- Austronesian_languages map "Oceanic languages.svg".
- Austronesian_languages mapcaption "The branches of the Oceanic languages: The black ovals at the northwestern limit of Micronesian are the Sunda–Sulawesi languages Palauan and Chamorro. The black circles in with the green are offshore Papuan languages.".
- Austronesian_languages mapcaption "The western Malayo-Polynesian languages. The only demonstrated groups in this list, besides Malayo-Polynesian itself, are Sama-Bajaw and Oceanic.".
- Austronesian_languages name "Austronesian".
- Austronesian_languages protoname Proto-Austronesian_language.
- Austronesian_languages region Madagascar.
- Austronesian_languages region Maritime_Southeast_Asia.
- Austronesian_languages region Oceania.
- Austronesian_languages region Taiwan.
- Austronesian_languages url austronesian.htm.
- Austronesian_languages subject Category:Austronesian_languages.
- Austronesian_languages subject Category:Formosan_languages.
- Austronesian_languages subject Category:Languages_of_Oceania.
- Austronesian_languages subject Category:Languages_of_Southeast_Asia.
- Austronesian_languages subject Category:Malayo-Polynesian_languages.
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- Austronesian_languages type FormosanLanguages.
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- Austronesian_languages type Language106282651.
- Austronesian_languages type LanguagesOfOceania.
- Austronesian_languages type LanguagesOfSoutheastAsia.
- Austronesian_languages type Malayo-PolynesianLanguages.
- Austronesian_languages type Language.
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- Austronesian_languages comment "The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families. Otto Dempwolff, a German scholar, was the first researcher to extensively explore Austronesian using the comparative method.".
- Austronesian_languages label "Austronesian languages".
- Austronesian_languages label "Austronesische Sprachen".
- Austronesian_languages label "Austronesische talen".
- Austronesian_languages label "Języki austronezyjskie".
- Austronesian_languages label "Langues austronésiennes".
- Austronesian_languages label "Lenguas austronesias".
- Austronesian_languages label "Lingue austronesiane".
- Austronesian_languages label "Línguas austronésias".
- Austronesian_languages label "Австронезийские языки".
- Austronesian_languages label "لغات أسترونيزية".
- Austronesian_languages label "オーストロネシア語族".
- Austronesian_languages label "南島語系".
- Austronesian_languages sameAs Austronéské_jazyky.
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- Austronesian_languages sameAs オーストロネシア語族.
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