Indonesian; Oceanic
Indonesian; Oceanic
An Austronesian is a member of any family of languages from the Pacific Islands of Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
An Austronesian is a member of any family of languages from the Pacific Islands of Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association was created in 1994.
Austronesian is a group of native languages spoken throughout southeast Asia and Australia & Oceania.
The Austronesian migration was one of the largest in history, spreading across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was driven by seafaring skills, leading to the colonization of remote islands. Austronesian languages are spoken by over 386 million people today.
The Badjao people speak multiple languages, including Sinama, Bajau, Tausug, Yakan, and Samal. These languages belong to the Sama-Bajaw language group, which is part of the Austronesian language family.
Tagalog and Ilokano are two separate languages because they have a different set of words and grammar rules. They are as different to each other as German is from English. However, they are of the same family (Austronesian) as German/English are same (Germanic family).
Most languages have Grammatical gender. In English we would say him or her as in other languages. Languages or dialitecs as Altaic, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Uralic and most Native American language families, grammatical gender is usually absent.
There are MANY more than 12 language families, but here are the top 12:Niger-Congo (1,532 languages)Austronesian (1,257 languages)Trans-New Guinea (477 languages)Sino-Tibetan (449 languages)Indo-European (439 languages)Afro-Asiatic (374 languages)Nilo-Saharan (205 languages)Pama-Nyungan (178 languages)Oto-Manguean (177 languages)Austro-Asiatic (169 languages)Tai-Kadai (92 languages)Dravidian (85 languages)
There are thousands of languages spoken in Asia, with estimates ranging from 2,000 to 2,300 languages. Some of the major language families in Asia include Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European, Dravidian, Altaic, Austroasiatic, Kra-Dai, and Austronesian.