Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics

Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics

Austronesian

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. All other languages fall beneath Malayo-Polynesian, which has been subdivided into Eastern, Central and Western language groups.

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See Also:

- News article about the creation of a cultural park for Austronesian-speaking peoples, located in Taiwan.
- Survey of endangered Austronesian languages with bibliography.
- News article about the 2004 Austronesian Cultural Festival
- Comparison of vocabulary from representative languages of the Austronesian language family.
- Collection of web resources for Austronesian and related topics including general information, mailing lists, bibligraphies and pointers to home pages with topical material.
- Austronesian language links organized by linguistic taxonomy.
- A brief description of Austronesian languages.
- Cultural festival for people speaking Austronesian languages, includes photos of past festivals.
- News article about the annual Austronesian festival in Taiwan.
- A book chapter by Nikolaus Himmelmann.
- PDF and Postscript format papers from the Austronesian workshop of the 1998 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
- Gives basic words in many Austronesian languages.
- Research paper by Yuri A. Lander, aiming to broaden current theory on partitive constructions using data from Austronesian languages.
- Encyclopedia article on Austronesian languages, including overall classification.
- Table of Malayo-Polynesian and Austronesian words.
- A comparison fo 24 words in 6 Austronesian languages.

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