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	Encyclopedia: Austronesian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of languages (1244 according to Ethnologue) and in terms of the geographical extent of the homelands of its languages (from Madagascar to Easter Island).
		The family of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages is a subgroup of the Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages.
		The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, conatining approximately 450 languages.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Austronesian-languages (2821 words)

	Austronesian languages
		The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		Austronesian has ten primary subgroups, nine of them found in Taiwan (the Formosan languages) and one ancestral to all other members of the family (Malayo-Polynesian languages).
		The Malayo-Polynesian languages tend to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word) to express the plural, and all Austronesian languages have a low entropy; that is, the text is quite repetitive in terms of the frequency of sounds.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/au/austronesian_languages.html (415 words)

	Javanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Javanese language is part of the Malayo-Polynesian (or Austronesian) family of languages, and is therefore related to Bahasa Indonesia and Malay.
		Although not an official language anywhere, Javanese is by far the Austronesian language with the largest number of native speakers.
		As in many languages of Eastern Asia, for example as in Korean, Japanese, Thai, as well the neighbouring Austronesian languages, there are several styles, sometimes called levels, in Javanese speech, depending on the social context.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Javanese_language (4273 words)

	June - The Austronesian family, Indo-Pacific languages, and language families of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This geographic spread is the reason why this family of languages is alternatively called Malayo-Polynesian....
		- Ka ‘olelo Hawai'i, the Hawaiian language, is a member of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family...
		Most of the Papuan languages are spoken on the island of New Guinea which is divided between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG)...
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june (319 words)

	Language of Fiji, words and phrases of Fiji, Prouncing Fijian
		It is the language the government uses and is the main language of education, commerce and the courts.
		Fijian belongs to the Austronesian family of languages.
		The Austronesian languages are a family of languages that are found throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific and continental Asia.
	www.earthyfamily.com /FJ-words.htm (336 words)

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		For one particular language to exhibit some but not all of the characteristics of ergativity is problematic for an ergativity macroparameter.
		We compare Malagasy with a range of Austronesian languages and show that the “mixed ergative” nature of Malagasy is not unique.
		This lack of cohesion is problematic for theories of ergativity that attempt to tie ergative properties to a particular syntactic structure.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /afla/AbPaulTravis.htm (447 words)

	Austronesian languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is theorized by some linguists that (A native or inhabitant of Japan) Japanese is either a member of or has been heavily influenced by the Austronesian language family.
		The internal structure of the Austronesian languages is difficult to work out, as the family consists of many very similar languages with large numbers of (additional info and facts about Dialect continuum) Dialect continuums.
		However, it is clear that the greatest genealogical diversity is found among the Formosan languages of Taiwan, and the least among the islands of the Pacific, supporting a dispersal of the family from Taiwan or mainland China.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/austronesian_languages.htm (724 words)

	Oceanic subgroups
		The Oceanic languages are members of the Austronesian language family, a language family which, until the advent of European exploration and settlement of the 'New World', had spread out across a considerably larger proportion of the earth than had any other language family.
		Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and from Taiwan and Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the south.
		He maintains that speakers of languages outside the Western Oceanic group migrated from the area in which POC was spoken, and that the languages of the Western Oceanic group evolved by a process of dialect differentiation from that point on.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/Work/Oceanic_guide.html (5840 words)

	Linguistics 201: World Language Handout
		Austronesian family--the languages of Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar, and the islands of the Pacific (including Hawaii, New Zealand, Tahiti). Even the splitters admit that all these languages are related.
		Khoisan superfamily--the languages of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in southwest Africa, famous for their clicks. If all languages do indeed stem from a common source, this group is probably one of the oldest offshoots.
		Language isolates--several isolated languages that cannot easily be fit into any of the above large families. Isolates include Basque of northern Spain, Ket of central Siberia, Georgian of the Caucasus mountains, and Burushaski of northern India. Isolates are thought to be remnants of ancient families once spoken more widely.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ling201/test3materials/Lang_familiesHANDOUT.htm (712 words)

	Language Schools - Language School in Los Angeles
		Indonesian: Indonesian is the westernmost branch of the Austronesian family of languages.
		Russian: Russian language belongs to the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Tagalog: Tagalog is one of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, mainly spoken in the Republic of the Philippines.
	www.languagesociety.com (1219 words)

	East Timor Leste: Languages, Culture, Images (Timor Timur - Timor Lorosae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Austronesian languages - Malayo-Polynesian languages - Malay - Portuguese and Tetun-Praça ("Town Tetum") - Tetun-Terik (Tetun-Loos) - Status of Tetum - Tetum and the Catholic Church - Tetum - Tetun?
		Tetum belongs to the great Austronesian family of languages spoken in a vast area of the globe between Taiwan in the north, New Zealand in the south, Easter Island in the east, and Madagascar in the west.
		In Indonesia, however, while Dutch was denigrated as the language of the colonialists, it was also the language - or one of the languages - of the Indonesian nationalist elite.
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/timor/languages.html (3580 words)

	Taiwanese Aborigines: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Austronesian languages are among the most widely distributed of the world's language families: The area inhabited by Austronesian peoples extends from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east; and from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south.
		Before the Han Chinese immigration began in the mid-1600s, Taiwan was inha-bited by people belonging to the Austronesian race, the members of which lived in a vast area extending from Madagascar in the west to Hawaii and Easter Island in the east, and from New Zealand in the south to Taiwan in the north.
		Since their languages are very different--more varied than those of the Philippines--some scholars suggest that Taiwan is the original homeland of all Austronesians.
	www.csupomona.edu /~fhkuo/aborigine/history.htm (1058 words)

	Austronesian Language Comparison
		Bahasa Indonesia was officially endorsed as the official language of the emerging independence movement in 1928, and became the official language upon independence from the Dutch in 1945.
		It is actually a multi-level language where the level spoken is in direct relationship to the social status or politeness required between the individual speakers.
		Their language is one of a fertile and relatively isolated inland valley culture which seems to have not needed a word for "island".
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/8908/firemount/austron.html (1563 words)

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		The Austronesian family of languages, also called Malayo-Polynesian, is spoken in most of Malaysia and Indonesia, all of the Philippines, parts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan, Madagascar, and all of the main island groups of the Central and South Pacific except for Australia and much of New Guinea.
		All of the Austronesian languages were once a single language, but the original language became diversified locally and the result is hundreds of dialects that in turn became new languages.
		The Austronesians were a seafaring people who spread throughout the Pacific thousands of years ago claiming most of the islands in the South Pacific and driving out or eradicating their predecessors.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~mjw/phillipines/geomihis.htm (893 words)

	Search Results for austronesian - Encyclopædia Britannica
		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...
		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.
		The modern study of the Austronesian languages is generally traced to the German medical doctor and linguist Otto Dempwolff, whose three-volume Comparative Phonology of Austronesian Word Lists,...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=austronesian&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (292 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Malayo-Polynesian languages @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MALAYO-POLYNESIAN LANGUAGES [Malayo-Polynesian languages], sometimes also called Austronesian languages, family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madagascar; the Malay Peninsula; Indonesia and New Guinea; the Philippines; Taiwan; the Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian islands; and New Zealand.
		These languages have come to be widely understood in their respective countries, although not always as a first language.
		Melanesian languages are found on the islands of Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Bismarck Archipelago, and New Guinea.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:MalayoPo&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (432 words)

	Austronesian languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		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.
		All of the approximately 70 indigenous languages and dialects belong to the Austronesian, or Malayo-Polynesian, family of languages.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109806 (681 words)

	HAWAIIAN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of the fewer than 10,000 people who speak Hawaiian, only a few hundred are native speakers, but the language is taught in some Hawaiian schools and remains important as a symbol of ethnic identity.
		Proto-Polynesian, the parent language of Hawaiian, was spoken in W Polynesia c.1500–1200
		It differs from most of the other Polynesian languages by its lack of the consonant t, which became k in Hawaiian as it diverged from the parent language.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ha/Hawaiian.html (116 words)

	Phonology (from Austronesian languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		broadly, the Austronesian languages of island Southeast Asia as a whole, including the languages of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan, and the outlying areas of Madagascar and of Palau and the Mariana Islands of western Micronesia.
		family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken south of the chief range of the Caucasus.
		They—and a number of lesser-known languages and dialects—are all derived from medieval Latin dialects spoken in areas of Europe governed by the Roman Empire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-75230 (776 words)

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		Isnag is an Austronesian language of the northern Cordilleran group in Luzon, Philippines.
		The Central Subanen language belongs to the Southern Philippine subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages and is estimated to be spoken by between 120,000 and 150,000 people.
		The Obo Manobo language is spoken by a group of people by that name living on the north and west slopes of Mt. Apo on the boundary between Davao del Sur and Cotabato and several surrounding provinces of southwest Mindanao, Philippines.
	www.sil.org /asia/philippines/book_store.html (2358 words)

	Kadazan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There are about 50 indigenous languages of Sabah, all belonging to the Austronesian language family.
		The Kadazandusun language belongs to the Dusunic subgroup.
		They are actually a collectivity of ethnic groups speaking similar languages and dialects as well as having similarities in culture and traditional beliefs.
	flw.com /languages/kadazan.htm (142 words)

	Palauan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palauan (also spelled Belauan) is the language spoken on Palau.
		It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia (the other being Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, all others considered to be members of the Micronesian subgroup of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.
		Ethnologue report for language code:pau. Ethnologue: Languages of the World.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palauan_language (133 words)

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		It is spoken as a first language by some 33 million people, and in its standard forms Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia, it is the official language for more than 200 million people.
		Literature in Malay started with the Islamization of the country in the 15th c., and it had become a literary language in its own right by the 17th c.
		Under European colonial domination, literature in the language declined, but it was revived during the 20th c.
	www.paul-raedle.de /vtrain/db-ms-info.htm (190 words)

	Welcome to the Department of Applied Language Studies and Lingustics at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Maori is part of the Malayo-Polynesian or Austronesian family of languages, part of the Polynesian subgroup.
		In a claim against the Crown for the protection of the Maori Language, it was stated that the Crown had an obligation to protect the language as per Article II of the treaty.
		The latest Maori Language Survey results show that proficiency in the language is more evident in the younger population.
	www.arts.auckland.ac.nz /online/linguist205/maoriback.html (474 words)

	ANG MGA WIKA SA PILIPINAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eight languages with the most number of native speakers are considered major languages.
		The Northern Luzon subgroup is composed of Southern Cordilleran, Ilokano, and South-Central Cordilleran; The second subgroup is composed of Bashic, Central Luzon, and Norhtern Minodoro languages.
		Four Philippine languages are listed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in the "Top 100 languages by Population" --Tagalog (number 57), Cebuano (# 61), Ilokano (# 91), and Hiligaynon (#100).
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Field/4260/fil_lang.html (601 words)

	Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Click on a month and learn about a language family and about the major languages that belong to it.
		December 2004 - The Indo-European language family: Germanic, Baltic, and Slavic branches..
		January 2005 - The Indo-European language family: Romance and Celtic branches...
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/families.html (173 words)

	Austronesian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Comparative reconstruction, confirmed by archaeology, has shown that the original homeland of the linguistic ancestors of all these languages was in south-eastern or eastern China, from which they emigrated to the island of Taiwan.
		Some linguists believe the Tai languages probably deserve a place within an expanded version of this family.
		The Malayo-Polynesian languages tend to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word - such as wiki-wiki), and have highly restrictive phonotactics, with small numbers of phonemes and predominantly consonant-vowel syllables, so that texts are quite repetitive in terms of the frequency of sounds.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Austronesian-languages.htm (699 words)

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