Austronesian language

C967 concept

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

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