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Austronesian adjective uk /ˌɒs.trəˈniː.ʒən/ us /ˌɑː.strəˈniː.ʒən/ belonging or relating to a large family of languages spoken in many different islands and countries in southeast Asia, that includes Malay, Indonesian, Javanese, and Tagalog: There are more than 1,000 Austronesian languages, scattered across half the globe. Fijian belongs to the Austronesian family of languages. Malagasy languages (the languages of Madagascar) are Austronesian. belonging or relating to a group of people living in many different islands and countries in southeast Asia who speak Austronesian languages: In the Malay peninsula Malay-speaking (Austronesian) peoples are 54% of the population. This evidence of early farming dates back to the arrival of early seafaring Austronesian populations into the region. The forms in the table show that the Austronesian vowels tend to be relatively stable, while the consonants are relatively volatile. The languages of Timor belong to one of two major language groupings: the Austronesian language family or the Trans-New Guinea phylum of languages. He is a researcher widely recognized for his proposed maps of Austronesian migration. Austronesian indigenous people form two percent of the island's current population. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Language names Albanian American English American Sign Language Amharic Angrezi Ebonics Filipino Finno-Ugric Frisian Georgian Greenlandic Mongolian Montenegrin Nahua Nahuatl Nauruan Romany Semitic Vietnamese Yiddish |