The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, [44] are large group of peoples who have settled in Taiwan, maritime Southeast Asia, parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages. [45][46] They also include indigeno...

Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan.

The Austronesian languages (/ ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən / AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). [2] .

Until the 1930s the branches of Austronesian were customarily identified with purely geographic labels: Indonesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian.

The Austronesians are Austronesian-speaking people who have been found to populate areas in Southeast Asia, Oceania and East Africa. These include Taiwanese aborigines and the majority of people on smaller islands such as Micronesia and Melanesia.

The Austronesian languages form a single and relatively close-knit family, similar in its degree of internal diversity and time depth to other major language families such as Austroasiatic, Uto-Aztecan and Indo-European.

The meaning of AUSTRONESIAN is of, relating to, or constituting a family of languages spoken in the area extending from Madagascar eastward through the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Hawaii and Easter Island and including practically all the native languages of the Pacific islands with the exception of the Australian and Papuan languages.

Filipino or Pilipino remains to be widely spoken in the bigger part of the country as the national language and lingua franca. It is the standardized variety of the Tagalog language that is highly influenced by other languages in the Austronesian region.

The Austronesian languages form a single and relatively close-knit family, similar in its degree of internal diversity and time depth to other major language families such as Austroasiatic, Uto-Aztecan and Indo-European.

2017年7月31日 · Sino ba ang mga Austronesyano? Kung titingnan sa itaas, napakalawak ng sakop ng Austronesyano. Itinuturing ang Austronesyano bilang pangkat ng iba’t ibang populasyon na nagsasalita ng wikang Austronesian (at mga variation nito). Ibig sabihin, lahat ng sakop nito ay kabilang sa isang language family.