Austronesian
adjective
uk/ˌɒs.trəˈniː.ʒən/us/ˌɑː.strəˈniː.ʒən/belongingorrelatingto alargefamilyoflanguagesspokenin many differentislandsandcountriesinsoutheastAsia, thatincludesMalay, Indonesian, Javanese, and Tagalog:
There are more than 1,000 Austronesianlanguages,scatteredacrosshalftheglobe.
Fijianbelongsto the Austronesianfamilyoflanguages.
Malagasylanguages(thelanguagesof Madagascar) are Austronesian.
belongingorrelatingto agroupofpeoplelivingin many differentislandsandcountriesinsoutheastAsiawhospeakAustronesianlanguages:
In the MalaypeninsulaMalay-speaking (Austronesian)peoplesare 54% of thepopulation.
Thisevidenceof earlyfarmingdatesback to thearrivalof earlyseafaringAustronesianpopulationsinto theregion.
- Theformsin thetableshow that the Austronesianvowelstendto berelativelystable, while theconsonantsarerelativelyvolatile.
- Thelanguagesof Timorbelongto one of twomajorlanguagegroupings: the Austronesianlanguagefamilyor the Trans-NewGuineaphylumoflanguages.
- He is aresearcherwidelyrecognizedfor hisproposedmapsof Austronesianmigration.
- Austronesianindigenouspeopleformtwopercentof the island'scurrentpopulation.
Language names
- Albanian
- American English
- Amharic
- Angrezi
- Aramaic
- Ebonics
- Finno-Ugric
- Flemish
- Georgian
- Greenlandic
- Gujarati
- Hawaiian
- Manx
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Nauruan
- Nepalese
- Nepali
- Romany
- Semitic