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Type Words
Synonyms austronesian language
Type of tongue, natural language
Has types aboriginal australian, formosan, australian, polynesian, malayo-polynesian
Type Words
Type of indweller, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, denizen
Has types polynesian, nauruan
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Derivation austronesia

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Austronesian diaspora and the ethnogeneses of people in Indonesian archipelago.
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Austronesian languages have been spoken in the Philippines for thousands of years.
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Austronesian languages, by contrast, may have the simplest sounds of any language family.
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Austronesian has several primary branches, all but one of which are found exclusively on Taiwan.
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Austronesian people form the majority of the modern population.
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Austronesian speakers arrived c. 4000 BC also bringing cultural elements such as the outrigger canoe.
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Austronesian peoples predominate in this region.
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Austronesian peoples have migrated from Philippines to Celebes, the Moluccas, northern Borneo and eastern Java.
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Austronesian works both there and in Asia.
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  • A native or inhabitant of Austronesia
  • Of or relating to or characteristic of Austronesia or its people or culture
  • The family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
  • 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. It is on par with Bantu, Indo-European, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families. ...
  • (Austronesians) The Austronesian peoples are a population in Oceania and Southeast Asia that speaks languages of the Austronesian family. ...
  • Family of 30 related languages found in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia; people of this linguistic group migrated throughout Pacific. (p. 244)