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Austronesian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of languages (1268 according to Ethnologue) and in terms of the geographical extent of the homelands of its languages (from Madagascar to Easter Island). The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Austronesian has a dozen primary branches, all but one of which are found exclusively on Taiwan and nearby islands (the Formosan languages, which are unrelated to Chinese). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austronesian_languages   (883 words)

ninemsn Encarta - Austronesian Languages Austronesian languages are written either in the Roman alphabet or in their own unique alphabets based on Indian and Arabic scripts. In general, the Austronesian languages use affixes (suffixes, infixes, prefixes) attached to base words to modify the meaning or to indicate the function of the word in the sentence. The 237 Western Oceanic languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia. au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553922/Austronesian_Languages.html   (645 words)

Oceanic subgroups 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. 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. 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)

Austronesian languages - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Austronesian languages There are 1,200 Austronesian languages and, according to US research published in February 2000, nine of the ten subgroups are found only in Taiwan. Family of languages spoken in Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, parts of the region that was formerly Indochina, Taiwan, Madagascar, Melanesia, and Polynesia (excluding Australia and most of New Guinea). The group contains some 500 distinct languages, including Malay in Malaysia, Bahasa in Indonesia, Fijian, Hawaiian, and Maori. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Austronesian+languages   (132 words)

Languages Austronesian languages are spoken not only in Madagascar and on part of the island of Mayotte in the Comoro group half a world away from French Polynesia, but also in almost all of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (with some exceptions in Irian Jaya, Halmahera and Timor, where unrelated Papuan languages are also spoken). The Polynesian languages spoken are Tahitian, Tuamotuan, Marquesan and Mangarevan. The official languages of French Polynesia are Tahitian and French. www.tahitinet.com /presense/languages.html   (1138 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)

Austronesian languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica All of the approximately 70 indigenous languages and dialects belong to the Austronesian, or Malayo-Polynesian, family of languages. The Austronesian, or Malayo-Polynesian, family is spoken from Madagascar, off the coast of Africa, to Hawaii. formerly called Malayo-Polynesian 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. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109806   (687 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. 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. On the other hand, the theory that Taiwan was the cradle of the Austronesian languages is relatively new, and has found support from many linguists. 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)

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. One Papuan language is spoken in the eastern Torres Straits. It is a pidginization of True Motu, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 14,000 people around Port Moresby, the capital of PNG. www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/papuanLanguages.html   (475 words)

Numbers in Over 5000 Languages For non-African languages, a macron indicates length and is indicated :. 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). Their ears may not be attuned to the language; or there may be dialectal variation, or even sound change. www.zompist.com /numbers.shtml   (926 words)

UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 2 (2002) All North Sarawak languages reflect a split of the Proto-Austronesian voiced obstruents into a series of plain voiced obstruents and a parallel series of phonemic voiced aspirates, and most of the same languages have fronted low vowels after a voiced obstruent, or have developed systems of verbal ablaut from the infixes *-um- and *-in-. However, a good syntactic typology of the languages requires that a decision be made as to their word class, based not simply on functional characteristics, semantic features, or translation equivalents, but on their syntactic distribution. The central concern of the present study is an investigation of possessive-benefactive polysemy in Toqabaqita, an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, and in closely related languages. www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL412.html   (1855 words)

Austronesian Languages (Austronesian means "southern islands" in Greek.) This massive language family boasts over 1,000 languages, making it the largest family in the world. Surprisingly, Malagasy, the official language of the nation of Madagascar, is part of the Austronesian family, despite its location thousands of miles away from core area of Austronesian speakers. Anthropologists believe that Austronesian speakers began migrating from their homeland in Southeast Asia about 3,000 or 4,000 years ago, and went on to settle almost all of the Pacific islands. www.concentric.net /~chanska/home/austro.html   (251 words)

Austronesian Languages The Austronesian Languages are the largest family with over 500 members and a geographical range from Madagascar to Easter Island and Hawaii. The Austronesian languages are divided into an Indonesian (or Western branch) and an Oceanic (or Eastern) branch. The nine Micronesian languages are spoken in islands scattered north of Melanesia, between the Philippines and Polynesia. www.scnt01426.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Articles/Language/Austronesian.htm   (206 words)

Malayo-Polynesian languages 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. The Malayo-Polynesian languages exhibit an abundance of vowels and a comparative paucity of consonants. www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0831333.html   (423 words)

345-ANF04.doc Austronesian family is the largest language family in the world, consisting of more than 900 languages. Austronesian family Polynesian is a small subgroup of the language family called Austronesian (originally called Malayo-Polynesian). The most economical interpretation of the subgrouping of Austronesian is that the common ancestor of Oceanic probably entered Melanesia from East Indonesia via the north coast of New Guinea. www2.hawaii.edu /~yotsuka/course/345-ANF04.doc   (487 words)

10-ICAL Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics In relation to the papers presented on "Epics in Austronesian Languages and Cultures," participants were privileged to listen to singers of tales in performance, coming from the highlands of Palawan and Mindanao, and the island of Tawi-Tawi. The Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL) was hosted by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL International, 17-20 January 2006 at the Legend Hotel in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, the Philippines. Epics in Austronesian Languages and Cultures (Organizer: Nicole Revel) www.sil.org /asia/philippines/ical/index.html   (234 words)

Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: Research The Austronesian language family is one of the largest in the world, and one of the most widely dispersed, with around 1,200 languages spoken in the area between Madagascar, Taiwan, Hawaii, Easter Island and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The analyses will be used to test hypotheses about the expansion of the Austronesian language family and the settlement of the Pacific. Languages evolve in remarkably similar ways to biological species. language.psy.auckland.ac.nz /austronesian/research.php   (326 words)

Japanese Language This language was in part influenced by the Pacific Island languages (the Austronesian languages) that surrounded the islands of Japan and thus formed an Austronesian substratum in Japanese. A.D., this Altaic language was the dominate language on the islands. Japanese is a Souteast Asian language related to Vietnamese, Tibetan, Burmese or, in one school of thought, the Tamil languages of southern India and Ceylon. www.wsu.edu:8001 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/LANGUAGE.HTM   (1787 words)

ANG MGA WIKA SA PILIPINAS 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)

1 I have claimed however that there is some substratal evidence that still remains of their pre-Austronesian languages. Morphosyntactic evidence for the position of Chamorro in the Austronesian language family. The possible relationship of the Austronesian language family to other language families has interested me for a number of years. www2.hawaii.edu /~reid   (1608 words)

North West Solomonic materials Austronesian languages are spoken from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south, from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east. Austronesian is the most widely spoken language family in geographic terms after Indo-European (which, let's face it, is spoken everywhere). Within that range it encompasses all the languages of Polynesia and Micronesia, island and coastal Melanesia, and the Philippines, as well as most of the languages of Malaysia and Indonesia, and several languages in Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China. www.surrey.ac.uk /lcts/bill.palmer/NWS_site   (400 words)

Wordgumbo: Austronesian Languages The Austronesian language group (also called Malayo-Polynesian) includes many of the languages of the Pacific and Indonesia, and stretches nearly half-way around the globe from Easter Island to Madagascar. www.wordgumbo.com /an   (29 words)

UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 33, no. 1 (1994) The languages spoken by Philippine peoples of a Negrito physical type appear to be Austronesian languages of a sort generally found in the Philippines. Alternative explanations are considered, but the one opted for hypothesizes an early pidgin or trade language, subsequently creolized, that was developed by the Negritos to facilitate communication with in-migrating Austronesians, and later decreolized to such an extent that it came to bear close resemblance to nearby Austronesian languages. The question as to whether Austronesian languages are ergative has been of interest to linguists for the past several decades. www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL331.html   (1188 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)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Misc. Austric Languages on this page so far are Ambonese, Austronesian Languages, Bajau, Makassar, Maluku, Mnong, Rungus, Sarawak Languages, Sasak, Sundanese, and Tasaday. You have reached the page with miscellaneous Austric languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. Among the Sarawak languages are Iban, Bidayuh, Melanau, and Kayan-Kenyah-Modang. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/miscamph.htm   (860 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Austric You have reached the Austric family page which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library at The University of Montana. Among Malayan languages are Bahasa Indonesia, Balinese, Javanese, Ilocano, Tagalog, and Visayan-- the latter three spoken in the Philippines. The Munda languages are spoken in southern India. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/austrih.htm   (204 words)

LINGUIST List 14.2376: General Ling/Austronesian; Computational Ling Information on the special session: The Syntax of Adjuncts in Austronesian languages Analyses of clause structure in Austronesian languages are well-known for the controversy concerning the applicability and universality of the notion ''subject''. We welcome the submission of abstracts that bring data from Austronesian languages to bear on theoretical issues in the syntax of adjuncts. The purpose of the special session is to further the empirical coverage of current theoretical work by extending it to Austronesian languages. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-2376.html   (1236 words)

LINGUIST List 7.910: Pacific Linguistics Volume 1: Austronesian languages of the North New Guinea cluster in Northwestern New Britain. The language of this volume are all Oceanic Austronesian and include Maleu, Kilenge, Kabana, Lusi, Kove, Amara, Mouk, Aria,, Tourai, and Lamongai. All the papers have to do with the reconstruction of lexicon in various Austronesian interstages. www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/7/7-910.html   (537 words)

Maluku and Melanesia (a) The Austronesians leaving the Asian continent, and heading utlimately for Oceania, originated from the culture sphere which evolved from the neolithic hearth at one end of the island chain. This must be particularly true for the Austronesians of Melanesia, so that one could even assert that ancestors of Austronesian (i.e. A high degree of linguistic diversity in a region within the distribution area a language family is a relatively reliable indication for the place of original homeland of the family. www.irja.org /anthro/malmel.htm   (1677 words)

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