The Austronesian language family stretches halfway around the world, covering a wide geographic area from Madagascar to Easter Island, and from Taiwan and Hawai’i to New Zealand.The family includes most of the languages spoken on the islands of the Pacific with the exception of the indigenous Papuan and Australian languages. Families of Formosan languages before Minnanese colonization, per Ross (2009). Languages; Countries; Guides; About; Plans & Pricing; Browse by Language Family Print. Austronesian Language Family. The results clearly show that the origin of the entire Austronesian language family can be dated back to Taiwan around 5,200 years ago, and moved through Island South-East Asia, along New Guinea and into Polynesia. Language Name; Language Code; Language Family (active tab) Map Title; ... Austronesian (1258) Indo-European (445) Mongolic (13) Tiniguan (1) Aymaran (3) Iroquoian (9) Mosetenan (1) Tor-Kwerba (23) Barbacoan (3) Jabutian (2) Muran (1) They were originally spoken in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The three languages in green (Bunun, Puyuma, Paiwan) may form a Southern Formosan branch, but this is uncertain. We analysed basic vocabulary from 400 languages in this database using computational phylogenetic methods to build a set of "family" trees for the languages of the Pacific. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Places where Austronesian languages are spoken are colored pink. Presentation [] For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list.
This will be further augmented with wordlists from languages neighbouring the Austronesian language family, including those from Mon-Khmer, Tai-Kadai, Hmong-Mien, and Sino-Tibetan languages. Primary tabs. Basque (the declension of the nominal phrase in the locative cases differs depending on the animacy of the referent; a different and unrelated masculine/feminine distinction is present in the verbal allocutive agreement); Biak - One of the few Austronesian languages with grammatical gender. The Austronesian languages are a language family. Language families. We have information from at least another 200 Austronesian languages to enter, and there is much more data in the primary literature available for mining. Animate and inanimate. This database contains 314,826 lexical items from 1,637 languages spoken throughout the Pacific region. Topics covered include: the physical and cultural background, official and national languages, largest and smallest languages in all major geographical regions, language contact, sound systems, linguistic palaeontology, morphology, syntax, the history of scholarship on Austronesian languages, and a critical assessment of the reconstruction of Proto Austronesian phonology.