Austronesian languages facts for kids

Language families. Places where Austronesian languages are spoken are colored pink.
The Austronesian languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Southeast Asia and on islands in the Pacific Ocean.
List of Austronesian languages
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A 5 dollar banknote, Hawaii, circa 1839, using Hawaiian language
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Families of Formosan languages before Minnanese colonization, per Li (2008). The three languages in green (Bunun, Puyuma, Paiwan) may form a Southern Formosan branch, but this is uncertain.
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