Austronesian language

An Austronesian language is any member of a large family of languages spoken from Madagascar across Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific to Easter Island, characterized by shared phonological, grammatical, and lexical features tracing back to a common ancestral tongue.

Observed surface forms (11)

• Austronesian languages ×7
• Micronesian language ×7
• Bikol language variety ×4
• Eastern Polynesian language ×2
• Polynesian language subgroup ×2
• Austronesian language variety ×1
• Micronesian language group ×1
• Oceanic languages ×1
• Old Javanese language ×1
• Philippine language variety ×1

• language of the Solomon Islands ×1

Instances (55)

• Waray language
• Rapa Nui language via concept surface "Eastern Polynesian language"
• Kapampangan language
• Chamorro
• Bikol language
• Old Malay via concept surface "Austronesian language variety"
• Modern Javanese
• Carolinian
• Hawaiian
• Indonesian
• Malay
• Gela language
• Celebic languages via concept surface "Austronesian languages"
• Formosan languages via concept surface "Austronesian languages"
• Mangarevan language group via concept surface "Polynesian language subgroup"
• Tokelauan language group via concept surface "Polynesian language subgroup"
• Gilbertese language group via concept surface "Micronesian language group"
• Marquesic languages via concept surface "Austronesian languages"
• Carolinean languages via concept surface "Austronesian languages"
• Vanuatu languages via concept surface "Oceanic languages"
• Minahasan languages via concept surface "Austronesian languages"
• Tetum
• Sasak language group
• Yapese
• Binisaya
• Cook Islands Māori language via concept surface "Eastern Polynesian language"
• Kiribati language
• Nauruan
• Tagalog
• Palauan
• Hiri Motu
• Ilonggo
• Pangasinan language
• Winaray
• Lineyte-Samarnon
• Philippine languages via concept surface "Austronesian languages"
• Central Bikol
• Rinconada Bikol via concept surface "Bikol language variety"
• Partido Bikol via concept surface "Bikol language variety"
• Mount Iraya Agta Bikol via concept surface "Bikol language variety"
• Solomon Islands Pijin via concept surface "language of the Solomon Islands"
• Cebuano language
• Kosraean language
• Kapampangan
• Amánung Kapampángan
• Sambal language
• Kawi language via concept surface "Old Javanese language"
• Ilocano language
• Proto-Javanese
• Ulithian via concept surface "Micronesian language"