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Ambai language, an Austronesian language spoken on the Ambai Islands
A competing Austro-Tai proposal linking Austronesian and Tai–Kadai is supported by Weera Ostapirat, Roger Blench, and Laurent Sagart, and is based on the traditional comparative method.
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French linguist and Sinologist Laurent Sagart considers the Austronesian languages to be related to the Sino-Tibetan languages, and also groups the Tai–Kadai languages as more closely related to the Malayo-Polynesian languages.
The language of Banyumasan is of Austronesian origin, and is usually considered to be a dialect of Javanese.
The Berau language, also known as Berau Malay, is an Austronesian language which is spoken by the Berau people in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
It publishes articles in English, French and Mandarin Chinese, and covers a wide range of topics including Generative syntax, Linguistic typologyPhonetics, Phonology and Historical linguistics on all languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic families, as well as on Japanese, Korean and Ainu.
Carolinian people, an Austronesian ethnic group which originates from the Caroline Islands
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Carolinian language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean
Chamorro language, an Austronesian language spoken on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
Li and Tsuchida (2009) lists various fossilized reflexes of Proto-Austronesian infixes *-al-, *-aR-, and *-aN- in all major Formosan languages as well as Tagalog and Javanese.
These same Austronesian people are thought to have continued their expansion eastward, to occupy Melanesian and Polynesian islands around 2000 years ago.
Most of the languages spoken today in the Solomon Islands derive from this era, but some thirty languages of the pre-Austronesian settlers survive (see East Papuan languages).
Iaai language, an Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia
The Austronesian languages are widely spread across the globe, as far west as Malagasy in Madagascar, as far east as Rapa Nui on Easter Island, and as far as north as the Formosan languages of Taiwan.
Sagart is probably best known for his proposal of the Sino-Austronesian language family.
Lihir language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir island group
Lorediakarkar language, an Austronesian language spoken on Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu
Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Oceanic Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the indigenous Australian languages, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family.
Attempts have been made to relate it to many other language families, including Altaic, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Nihali, and the putative Indo-Pacific stock.
A fieldwork project in the northern Moluccas islands of eastern Indonesia, involving joint research with Indonesian scholars and Geoffrey Irwin of Auckland University yielded cave sequences covering the past 35,000 years, with very clear signals of an Austronesian presence commencing after 4000 BP.
Blust has done field work on 97 Austronesian languages spoken in locations such as Sarawak, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan.
Taba language, an Austronesian language spoken in the northern Maluku Islands of Indonesia
Western Pantar and the other non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar comprise the Alor–Pantar language family.