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Austronesian (263)
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.
Categories
Top categories:
Formosan (12) , Malayo-Polynesian (234)
Sites
Comparison of Austronesian Languages
· cached · Comparison of vocabulary from representative languages of the Austronesian language family.
Endangered Languages of the Pacific Region
· cached · Survey of endangered Austronesian languages with bibliography.
Link Sink for Formosan and Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics
· cached · Austronesian language links organized by linguistic taxonomy.
Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian Languages
· cached · PDF and Postscript format papers from the Austronesian workshop of the 1998 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
WM's Austronesian and Other Indo-Pacific Links
· cached · Collection of web resources for Austronesian and related topics including general information, mailing lists, bibligraphies and pointers to home pages with topical material.
Austronesian Vocabulary
· cached · A comparison fo 24 words in 6 Austronesian languages.
Austronesian Languages
· A brief description of Austronesian languages, with links to example languages, and classification schemes.
Austronesian Navigation and Migration
· iweb · cached · A discussion of the possibility of wider history of the Austronesians than is generally accepted, written by Paul Kekai Manansala.
ECAI - Pacific Language Mapping
· cached · Language maps of the Pacific Island region, reproduced from Wurm and Hattori's atlas, including Austronesian and Papuan languages.
Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
· iweb · cached · Gives basic words in many Austronesian languages.
Austronesian Language Comparison
· Table of Malayo-Polynesian and Austronesian words in 13 languages.
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