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	Batak alphabet
		Dairi Batak, which is also known as Batak Toba and Batta, is an Austronesian language spoken by about 2 million people in the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		Simalungun, which is also known as Timur and Simelungan, is an Austronesian language spoken by about 800,000 people in the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		Karo Batak is an Austronesian language with about 600,000 speaks in the central and northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/batak.htm (308 words)

	Numbers in Over 5000 Languages
		Ordinary people generally call something a "language" if it has a prestigious standard form; but that's a fact about people's attitudes, not about language.
		Secondly, an orthography is generally closer to a phonemic representation, which is arguably what people have in their heads.
		There is nothing inherent in the language variety to tell us what it is. Linguists sometimes use "language" to refer to a mutually intelligible group of dialects (but note that intelligibility can be partial).
	www.zompist.com /numbers.shtml (926 words)

	News Article - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
		In addition to visiting an exhibition of artifacts, handicrafts and historical relics, festival-goers will also be able to get a better understanding of the movements of the Austronesian people and of their cultures.
		Taiwan's aborigines were considered the northernmost Austronesian people.
		The 2004 Austronesian Cultural Festival kicked off yesterday in Taitung, eastern Taiwan, focusing on the mythologies, worship and ritual practices in Austronesian civilization.
	www.atayal.org /NewsView.asp?catID=48 (926 words)

	Voice in Austronesian
		On September 1, 1995, a workshop on 'Voice in Austronesian' was held as part of the SLE conference at Leiden University.
		The programme was quite full, not to say exhausting, but a delicious Austronesian dinner at the end of the long day - Padang food, a real treat - restored everyone to their senses.
		It is a very good thing that the organizers of the SLE conference made this workshop possible: good for its participants, good for Austronesian linguistics.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/iiasn6/southeas/austro.html (926 words)

	Malay people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malays are also linguistically related to the Polynesian and Micronesian groups of the mid-Pacific, as members of the far-flung Austronesian family of languages.
		Malays (Dutch, Malayo, ultimately from Malay: Melayu) are a diverse group of people inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.
		This people speak various dialects of Malay language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malay_people (1609 words)

	Adi people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of Proto-Austronesian and Tibetan stock, they speak a language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family.
		The Adi practice wet rice cultivation and have a considerable agricultural economy.
		The dress of the Adi consists of one multi-purpose cloth, known as the dhoti.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adi_(Tribe) (1609 words)

	Batak alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Batak alphabet (ethnonym surat batak) is a type of alphabet called an abugida that is used to write the Batak languages of northern Sumatra, an Austronesian language spoken by about three million people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		The Batak alphabet was probably derived from Pallava and Old Kawi alphabets, which ultimately were derived from the Brahmi alphabet, the root of almost all the Indic and Southeast Asian abugidas.
		However, surat batak is unusual in that the diacritics are placed at the end of the entire syllable, and not necessarily with the consonant they belong to.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batak_alphabet (302 words)

	Malay Translation - Translate Malay Language Translator
		The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who are native to the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Singapore and parts of Sumatra.
		The official standard for Malay, as agreed upon by Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, is Bahasa Riau, the language of the Riau Archipelago, long considered the birthplace of the Malay language.
		The language spoken by the Peranakan (Straits Chinese, a hybrid of Chinese settlers from the Ming Dynasty and local Malays) is a unique patois of Malay and the Chinese Dialect of Hokkien, which is mostly spoken in the former Straits Settlements of Penang and Melaka.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/malay.shtml (1000 words)

	Resources on the Fiji
		Fijians are predominantly of Melanesian extraction, with some Polynesian admixture; the Fijian language belongs to the Melanesian branch of the Austronesian family.
		Fiji people (of all races and religions) do not want to expose their families to the gratuitous violence and sex that predominates on Sky Plus.
		and church ministers stir their people but the...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/pacific/Fiji.html (1000 words)

	Taiwanese Aborigines: History
		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.
		While the first theory proposes that the aborigines originated in some other area, the second asserts that Taiwan is the ancestral homeland of the Austronesian peoples.
	www.csupomona.edu /~fhkuo/aborigine/history.htm (1058 words)

	ical.txt
		Austronesian linguistics is the branch of linguistics that specifically studies the languages of the Austronesian language family.
		Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics 22-27 August, 1994 Leiden, The Netherlands The Department of Languages and Cultures of South-East Asia and Oceania at Leiden University is the organizer of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL), which will be held from Monday 22 August to Saturday 27 August, 1994.
		The descriptive and comparative study of its languages is intimately tied up with the historical issue of how such an immense area came to be inhabited by people speaking related languages.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/iiasn1/soueasia/ical.txt (445 words)

	Austronesian Vocabulary
		It is the Austronesian language that was spoken in Manila when the Philippines gained their independence from Spain; as the language of the capital it became the national standard.
		It started as a traders' lingua franca, combining words from the various local languages (which were pretty similar, being closely related members of one or two branches of the Austronesian family) and Dutch, Portuguese, English, Arabic, et cetera, and getting rid of most of the grammar.
		Kemak is one of a handful of other languages which are spoken on Timur, some Austronesian, others not.
	www.gbarto.com /languages/austronesian.html (790 words)

	Chapter One
		But the Chamic peoples were separated from their fellow Austronesian speakers who, over a period of some thousands of years, followed the receding coasts to higher land and found themselves on islands when the sea levels stabilised.
		The Chams and their neighbours the Khmers, in contrast, were deeply imbued with the Indian culture that had spread along the southern maritime trade routes of Southeast Asia.
		The daughter of the Cham king, although Muslim, was married to the Hindu king of Majapahit in the agrarian heartland of Java and she became known as the Puteri Champa ("Cham Princess").
	www.cascambodia.org /chams.htm (10130 words)

	Hawaiian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Hawaiian is an Austronesian language spoken by about 8,000 people on the Hawaiian islands.
		Literacy among the Hawaiian people was widespread during the 19th century when Hawai'i was an independent kingdom.
		Hawaiian first appeared in writing in the early 19th century in a version of the Latin alphabet developed by missionaries, who started to visit the Hawaiian islands from 1820 onwards.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/hawaiian.htm (350 words)

	Blackfoot
		One of several dialects of language spoken by the Batak people of Island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Sundic, Sumatra, Batak, Northern.
		This is one of several dialects spoken, which include the following and their greetings
	www.flw.com /languages/batak.htm (48 words)

	Papuan Languages of New Guinea
		Although less is known about Papuan languages than about those belonging to the Austronesian and Australian families, linguists have identified a number of distinct genetic groups, referred to as phyla.
		It is a pidginization of True Motu, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 14,000 people around Port Moresby, the capital of PNG.
		One Papuan language is spoken in the eastern Torres Straits.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/papuanLanguages.html (475 words)

	Languages of Kaupelan
		Atawodo is a non-Austronesian language spoken in the small island of Homafak by only 1,000 people in a bilingual community.
		Suduk was slightly influenced by the language of the ancient realm of Tjanwadulan and lately, by Kaupelanese.
		It is an Austonesian language descendant of makuwa (or old Kaupelanese), the lingua franca of the archipelago in the fifteenth century.
	www.kaupelan.net /kauplang.htm (1884 words)

	Malayo-Polynesian languages
		Although there is a very large number of these languages, all together they are spoken by only 5 million people.
		Melanesian languages are found on the islands of Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Bismarck Archipelago, and New Guinea.
		These languages have come to be widely understood in their respective countries, although not always as a first language.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0831333.html (423 words)

	Information Technology, Scanner, OCR, Recognition, Data Archive
		A kadai language (considered to be related both to thai and austronesian languages) spoken in China.
		A mother tongue for some 8 million people in Spain (Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic islands), France (Roussillon, East Pyrenees), Andorra and Sardinia island.
		A mother tongue for some 600 thousand people in Spain and France.
	ocr-service.portland.co.uk /languages.html (2756 words)

	Save The Ummah: January 2005
		Many young, educated and progressive-minded Malay peoples in Malaysia are so incensed with the sinfulness of their race, that they are seriously thinking of becoming MALAYSIAN, a mixture of Malay, Chinese and Indian, the three major communities of Malaysia.
		Indigenous people whose mother tongue is the language known as Malay, which is the national language of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei.
		What was once the definitive people of South East Asia, who founded Malaysia, in the form of the Selangor {Sri Vijaya Empire based in Klang and Palembang, Sumatra} Empire and its successors, Melaka and Pahang-Johor-Riau, is now considered the scum of Malaysian society, that deserves to be demolished for the country to progress ahead.
	savetheummah.blogspot.com /2005_01_01_savetheummah_archive.html (7443 words)

	Goldstein Lab
		A predominantly indigenous paternal heritage for the Austronesian speaking peoples of insular South East Asia and Oceania.
		Strangers in Strange Lands: A Genetic History of the Jewish People.
		Estimating the age of mutations using the variation at linked markers, in Microsatellites: Evolution and Applications, Edited by D.B. Goldstein and C. Schlötterer, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
	popgen.biol.ucl.ac.uk /people/dbg/david_home.html (7443 words)

	Ethnologue: Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources
		Peoples of the middle Niger region of northern Nigeria.
		Gunn, H. Peoples of the plateau region of northern Nigeria.
		Presented at the Fifth International Congress of Austronesian Linguistics.
	www.ethnologue.com /ethno_docs/bibliography.asp (7065 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Comprehensive Austronesian essay includes info on
		Overall Austronesians are a mixture of "Mongoloids" and the the natives of "Oceania" --the australoids (negritos, Papuans, and Australian Aborigine-like people).
		The descendants of the KMT Chinese who fled to Taiwan after 1949 are called ¡¥foreign-born people¡¦ (waisheng ren), signaling their outsider status in the wider society, and they are not considered nor do they consider themselves to be Taiwanese.
		Taiwanese (both Chinese and Austronesian) men were forced into military service for Japan and fought for Japan¡¦s imperialist efforts throughout island Southeast Asia, especially in the Philippines.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=22689 (10951 words)

	ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition - List of Supported Languages
		A kadai language (considered to be related both to thai and austronesian languages) spoken in China.
		A mother tongue for some 8 million people in Spain (Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic islands), France (Roussillon, East Pyrenees), Andorra and Sardinia island.
		Spoken in 83 countries worldwide by some 100000 people, some 30000 books had been published in Esperanto.
	www.abbyy.com /finereader7?param=28558 (2861 words)

	The Hail Mary in Various Languages
		Kadazan is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 500,000 people in Sabah, a state of Malaysia in the northern portion of Borneo.
		Rumantsch (Romansch) is a Rhaeto-Romanic language spoken by about 40,000 people, or approximately 0.6% of the Swiss population, as of the 1990 census.
		Faroese is a Germanic language closely related to Icelandic and Norwegian spoken by about 44,000 persons on the Faroes Islands, located in the North Sea several hundred kilometers north of Scotland.
	www.udayton.edu /mary/resources/flhm01.html (5125 words)

	German Shepherd Dog Stamps
		Although archaeological and linguistic evidence shows that Solomon Islands was probably settled 4,000 - 5,000 years ago by Austronesian, neolithic people from South-East Asia.
		Interior peoples sent undesirables from their own societies and captives from warfare down the waterways to the coast where they were collected in barracoons (temporary enclosures) to await the arrival of European ships.
		The Soviet government tried to bring these people under their rule but the climatic conditions are very harsh and it was difficult to exploit the natural resources, so much of the country was still undominated when the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991.
	www.animalstamps.com /gsd.htm (5125 words)

	NY.Pilipinas!: Englipino
		ivatann, pl ivatanor ivatans usu cap [native name in the Batan Islands] 1 a :a people inhabiting in the Batan Islands of the Philippines b :a member of such people 2 :the Austronesian language of the Ivatan people
		Bisayan Bisayâ] 1 a : any of several Christianized peoples in the Visayan islands, Philippines b : a member of such peoples 2 : an Austronesian language of the Bisayan peoples; collectively : the Bisayan languages -- see
		aklan also aklanon n, pl aklan or aklans also aklanon or aklanons usu cap [Aklan] 1 a : a predominantly Christian Bisayan people on Panay Island, Philippines b : a member of such people 2 : the Austronesian language of the Aklan people
	www.nyz.com /Pilipinas!/Englipino (5125 words)

	Yuet
		One wide-spread misconception is that today's Hoklo and Hakka people in Taiwan are solely descendants of the Chinese immigrants, who took over the land of the local Austronesian population and forced them to go into high mountains.
		Today, in some academic circles, this group of people is also known as the Austro-Tai people, named after their modern Austronesian and Tai branches.
		The Taiwanese government's position of denying minority status to the lowland aborigines simply reflects the fact that too many Taiwanese people hold valid claim to partial or full lowland Austronesian heritage, therefore the minority protection status becomes impractical: this lowland minority is not very much a "minority" at all.
	www.hoklo.org /YuetCulture (5125 words)

	NY.Pilipinas!: Englipino
		aklan also aklanon n, pl aklan or aklans also aklanon or aklanons usu cap [Aklan] 1 a : a predominantly Christian Bisayan people on Panay Island, Philippines b : a member of such people 2 : the Austronesian language of the Aklan people
		Bisayan Bisayâ] 1 a : any of several Christianized peoples in the Visayan islands, Philippines b : a member of such peoples 2 : an Austronesian language of the Bisayan peoples; collectively : the Bisayan languages -- see
		bangon n, pl bangon or bangons usu cap [Tag] 1 : a pagan people inhabiting central Mindoro, Philippines 2 : a member of the Bangon people
	www.nyz.com /Archive/Pilipinas!/Englipino (3241 words)

	1Up Science > Links Directory >Social Sciences:Language and Linguistics:Natural Languages:Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern
		Samoan is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken by 93% of the people of Samoa with smaller populations in American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Tonga and the United States.
		Marquesan is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken in the Marquesas Islands by approximately 3400 people.
		Marshallese, also known as Ebon, is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 44000 people.
	www.1upscience.com /links/desc-3248.html (3241 words)

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