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Austronesian languages facts for kids
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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 the Pacific Ocean.
List of Austronesian languages
Images for kids
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Banknote for 5 dollars, Hawaii, circa 1839, using Hawaiian language
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Families of Formosan languages before Minnanese colonization of Taiwan, per Blust (1999).
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Distribution of the Austronesian languages, per Blust (1999).
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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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Families of Formosan languages before Minnanese colonization, per Ross (2009).
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Austronesian languages expansion map. Periods are based on archeological studies, though the association of the archeological record and linguistic reconstructions is disputed.
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Language tree of the Austro-Tai family