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unusual facts about Austronesian language family



Prehistory of the Philippines

(Some areas with oceanic languages are not visible on this map.) The popular contemporary alternative to Beyer's model is Peter Bellwood’s Out-of-Taiwan (OOT) hypothesis, which is based largely on linguistics, hewing very close to Robert Blust’s model of the history of the Austronesian language family, and supplementing it with archeological data.

Thao people

The Thao/Ngan language is classified as a Paiwanic language, and a Formosan language which is a geographical subgroup of the much larger Austronesian language family.


see also

Laurent Sagart

Sagart is probably best known for his proposal of the Sino-Austronesian language family.