His study of Tagalog has been described as “… the best treatment of any Austronesian language … The result is a description of Tagalog which has never been surpassed for completeness, accuracy, and wealth of exemplification .”

The Palauan language is an outlier among the Austronesian languages, and so does not shed much light on the origins of the modern population.

Scientific research is ongoing although a number of different theories exist ; including one proposing that the Samoans originated from Austronesian predecessors during the terminal eastward Lapita expansion period from Southeast Asia and Melanesia between 2, 500 and 1, 500 BCE.

Linguistically, the Samoan language is part of the Austronesian language family.

Several Western scholars have presented suggestive evidence that Tai – Kadai is related to or a branch of the Austronesian language family.

Among proponents, there is yet no agreement as to whether they are a sister group to Austronesian in a family called Austro-Tai, a backmigration from Taiwan to the mainland, or a later migration from the Philippines to Hainan during the Austronesian expansion.

Tagalog (; ) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest.

It is a standardized register of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries.

Several Austronesian or Austronesian-based languages such as Tolomako, Lihir, Manam, Bislama, and some registers of Tok Pisin have trial number in their pronouns ; no language is known with trial number in its nouns.

The majority of the population of Madagascar today is a mixture of Austronesian, North Indian, Arab, Somali and Bantu settlers from Southeast Asia, Gujarat, the Arabian Peninsula, Somalia and East Africa, respectively.

A point is still debated among the researchers community about the Vazimba: as it is an Austronesian qualifier designating " forest dwellers " in general ( including the Austronesians Vahoaka Ntaolo themselves settled in the forests ), it can not be excluded that other hominids vazimba natives like Flores Man, for example, have inhabited the forests of Madagascar dozens-even hundreds-of thousands of years before the arrival of the Austronesians Vahoaka Ntaolo.

It is, finally, not excluded that the myth of these " little / dwarf men vazimba " was led by the Austronesian from Sunda Islands where they lived before, in which case this myth could actually relate to the Flores hominid type or, more probably, the Negritos ( Orang Asli in Malay ).

Genotypically, the original Austronesian heritage is more or less evenly distributed throughout the island.

Madagascar's population is predominantly of mixed Austronesian and East African origin.

Additionally, a genetically distinct subpopulation of coconut on the western coast of South America has undergone a genetic bottleneck resulting from a founder effect ; however, its ancestral population is the Pacific coconut, which suggests Austronesian peoples may have sailed as far east as the Americas.

Tetum ( also Tetun ) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor.

Like other Austronesian languages, Tetum has two forms of " we ", ami ( equivalent to Indonesian and Malay kami ) which is exclusive, e. g. " I and they ", and ita ( equivalent to Indonesian and Malay kita ), which is inclusive, e. g. " you, I, and they ".

Most scholars believe this culture is not derived from the Changbinian, but was brought across the Strait by the ancestors of today's Taiwanese aborigines, speaking early Austronesian languages.

How ever, there is some variation among the vast numbers of Austronesian ethnic groups.

Although originating in the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done in language families for which little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.

The Funanese may have been Cham or from another Austronesian group, or they may have been Khmer or from another Austroasiatic group.

The word is similar to posa ( meaning " cat ") in the Iban language ( another Austronesian language ) from Borneo, and both terms may derive from trade languages from 1600s.

Like Buyang, another Kra language, Gelao contains many words which are likely to be Austronesian cognates.

) Donohue argues that they form an independent family, though one perhaps related to another Papuan family, that has been extensively relexified under Austronesian influence, especially in the case of Warembori.

There is " historical linguistic evidence of some late Holocene immigration of Austronesian speakers to South Sulawesi from Taiwan "-which means that the Bugis have " possible ultimate ancestry in South China ", and that as a result of this immigration, " there was an infusion of an exogenous population from China or Taiwan.

Region 1 was first inhabited by the aboriginal Negritos before they were pushed by successive waves of Malay / Austronesian immigrants that penetrated the narrow coast.

The aboriginal languages of Taiwan have significance in historical linguistics, since in all likelihood Taiwan was the place of origin of the entire Austronesian language family.

The Tao are an Austronesian people linguistically and culturally closer to the Ivatan people of the Batanes islands in the Philippines than to other aboriginal peoples on the main island of Taiwan.

Next to menhir, stone table, and stone statue ; Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia also featured earth and stone step pyramid structures called Punden Berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan, Cisolok and Gunung Padang, West Java.

The Minangkabau language is a member of the Austronesian language family, and is closest to the Malay language, though when the two languages split from a common ancestor and the precise historical relationship between Malay and Minangkabau culture is not known.

Previously the prehistoric Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia had constructed several earth mounds and stone step pyramid structures called punden berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan, Cisolok and Gunung Padang, West Java.

Today the Austronesian culture is very evident in the ethnicity, language, food, dance and almost every aspect of the culture.

Its people speak languages belonging to three language families, the northern and southern Bougainville families, whose origins are unknown and presumably ancient, and languages of the Austronesian family, which arrived with the more recent Lapita culture from the west three millennia ago.

The Morgan ( also spelled Mawken or Moken ; ;, chao le " sea people "), are an Austronesian ethnic group with about 2, 000 to 3, 000 members who maintain a nomadic, sea-based culture.

* Moken, also known as the Selung, Salone or Chalome and Chao Ley or Chao nam, an Austronesian ethnic group with about 2, 000 to 3, 000 members who maintain a nomadic, sea-based culture.

Next to menhir, stone table, and stone statue ; Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia also featured earth and stone step pyramid structure called Punden Berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan, Cisolok and Gunung Padang, West Java.

Rotuman, also referred to as Rotunan, Rutuman or Fäeag Rotuma, is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous people of the South Pacific island group of Rotuma, an island with a Polynesian-influenced culture that was incorporated as a dependency into the Colony of Fiji in 1881.

In Javanese Kejawen culture and the Austronesian cultures affected by it, known as the Malays, but most specifically the inhabitants of modern day Indonesia and Malaysia ; ( Minangs ), Balinese Bataks, Bugis, Manado, Minang, Moro, Pampangan, Taglog and many others-pusaka specifically refers to the family heirlooms gifted from the ancestors which must be treasured and protected.

Doubt was also raised about the affinities of Korean and Japanese ; in particular, some authors tried to connect Japanese to the Austronesian languages.

Whereas for certain other language families, such as the speakers of Indo-European, Uralic, and Austronesian, we are able to frame substantial hypotheses, in the case of the proposed Altaic family everything remains to be done.

The island may have been visited during the Austronesian diaspora around 700 AD, and some say the old Maldivian name for the islands originated from Malagasy.

Languages of South and East Asia, such as the Dravidian and Austronesian languages, typically do not have such voiced fricatives as and, which are very familiar to European speakers.

The original inhabitants of Guam are believed to be descendants of Austronesian people originating from Southeast Asia as early as 4, 000 BC, having linguistic and cultural similarities to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Like many Austronesian languages, the verbs of the Philippine languages follow a complex system of affixes in order to express subtle changes in meaning.

The original inhabitants of Guam are believed to be descendants of Austronesian people originating from Southeast Asia as early as 4, 000 BC, having linguistic and cultural similarities to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians have descended from a South Pacific proto-culture created by an Austronesian ( Malayo-Polynesian ) people that had migrated from Southeast Asia.

Austronesian people, who form the majority of the modern population, are thought to have originally been from Taiwan and arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE.

Austronesian people form the majority of the modern population.

This excludes the Austronesian languages, which have been established as associated with a more recent migration of peoples.

He made significant contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics, the description of Austronesian languages, and description of languages of the Algonquian family.

While at the University of Illinois Bloomfield undertook research on Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines.

Bloomfield's only other publication on an Austronesian language was an article on the syntax of Ilocano, based upon research undertaken with a native speaker of Ilocano who was a student at Yale University.

With the age of colonialism and Christian evangelism, the Latin script was spread overseas, and applied to indigenous American, Australian, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, and African languages.

Initial human settlement of Madagascar occurred between 350 BCE and 550 CE by Austronesian peoples arriving on outrigger canoes from Borneo.

Probably the descendants of an earlier and less technologically advanced Austronesian settlement wave, the Vazimba were expelled from the highlands by Merina kings Andriamanelo, Ralambo and Andrianjaka in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Javanese styles in turn influenced the architectural styles of mosques among Indonesia's Austronesian neighbors: Malaysia, Brunei and the southern Philippines.

Sometime around 1500 BC Austronesian peoples spread throughout the Philippines and far beyond.

Workshop: Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian.

They became known as the Chamorros, and spoke an Austronesian language called Chamorro.

Some Austronesian and Melanesian ethnic groups, including the Māori, some Sulawesi and some Papua New Guineans, count with the base number four, using the term asu and aso, the word for dog, as the ubiquitous village dog has four legs.

A major migration of Austronesian speaking peoples came to coastal regions roughly 500 BC.

In addition, many languages belonging to Austronesian language group are used in Papua New Guinea, and in total, more than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.