Austronesian

The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely, geographically distributed language groups extending from Madagascar in the west, Easter Island in the east, Hawai`i in the north and New Zealand in the south.The Austronesian language family comprises of four main branches: Atayalic, Paiwanic, Tsouic and Malayo-Polynesian, the first three of which are found on the island of Formosa (or Taiwan), and therefore placed beneath the top-level category "Formosan". All other languages fall beneath Malayo-Polynesian, which has been subdivided into Eastern, Central and Western language groups.

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Comparison of Austronesian Languages - Comparison of vocabulary from representative languages of the Austronesian language family.
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Austronesian Language Comparison - Table of Malayo-Polynesian and Austronesian words.
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Endangered Languages of the Pacific Region - Survey of endangered Austronesian languages with bibliography.
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Link Sink for Formosan and Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics - Austronesian language links organized by linguistic taxonomy.
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Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian Languages - PDF and Postscript format papers from the Austronesian workshop of the 1998 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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WM's Austronesian and Other Indo-Pacific Links - Collection of web resources for Austronesian and related topics including general information, mailing lists, bibligraphies and pointers to home pages with topical material.
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Austronesian Partitives - Research paper by Yuri A. Lander, aiming to broaden current theory on partitive constructions using data from Austronesian languages.
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2003 Festival of Austronesian Cultures in Taitung, Taiwan - Cultural festival for people speaking Austronesian languages, includes photos of past festivals.
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Austronesian Park To Be Included in Budget Plan - News article about the creation of a cultural park for Austronesian-speaking peoples, located in Taiwan.
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Austronesian Vocabulary - A comparison fo 24 words in 6 Austronesian languages.
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Austronesian - A brief description of Austronesian languages.
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Culture Festival Set to Start Next Month - News article about the annual Austronesian festival in Taiwan.
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Austronesian Cultural Festival Kicks off in Taitung - News article about the 2004 Austronesian Cultural Festival
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Web Search for Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics Social Sciences Science - News search for Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics Social Sciences Science - encyclopedia entries for Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics Social Sciences Science