[DOC] [TLE] Austronesian languages - Wikipedia [PAR] The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed 
throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific 
Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia. Austronesian languages are 
spoken by about 386 million people, making it ... The Formosan languages of 
Taiwan are grouped into as many as nine... [DOC] [TLE] An Account of Austronesian [PAR] Feb 28, 2000 ... The Austronesian, or Malayo-Polynesian language family, which is comprised ... 
15,000 kilometers east to west (from Easter Island to Madagascar), and ... The 
Formosan languages are spoken by approximately 200,000 people ... that the 
Austric-speaking peoples belong to a larger racial type that includes... [DOC] [TLE] What I've Learned about the Malayo-Polynesian Family of Languages [PAR] The Austronesian language family is broken up into subgroups which have been 
debated and ... Britannica lists the groups as: Formosan, West Malayo-
Polynesian, Central ... The language of Javanese is spoken in Java (the most 
populated island of ... About 200,000 people on the independent island of Fiji 
speak Fijian. [DOC] [TLE] Austronesian languages | Britannica.com [PAR] The Formosan languages belong to the Austronesian family. ... Spoken on the 
islands of Oceania from New Guinea to Hawaii to Easter Island, certain of these... [DOC] [TLE] Austronesian languages | Britannica.com [PAR] Family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the 
Philippines, ... and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for 
Australia. ... Among the best-described Formosan languages are Atayal (spoken 
in the ... and elsewhere in the Philippinesdo not appear to belong to the 
Philippine... [DOC] [TLE] Samoan - UCLA Language Materials Project: Language Profile [PAR] Samoan is spoken by approximately 200,000 people on the island of Western 
Samoa, ... Samoan belongs to the Austronesian language family. ... should be 
divided into two major sub-families, Formosan (Taiwanese) on the one hand, and
... [DOC] [TLE] Whale Rider 3: Maori History [PAR] Sep 18, 2006 ... More than 95 percent of Maori live on New Zealand's North Island. ... Most Maori 
speak the Maori language, a branch of the Austronesian languages, as well as 
English. ... two branches: Formosan, the languages spoken by about 200,000 ... 
comprising the rest of the languages in the Austronesian family. [DOC] [TLE] The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives - OAPEN [PAR] Austronesian languages belonged to the most widespread language family in 
...... languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the 
east ... languages which belong to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup left the 
island. ... separate the Philippine languages from the Formosan at, or nearly at, 
the highest. [DOC] [TLE] Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Four - JStor [PAR] languages do not even belong to the Austronesian language family - e. g. North. 
Halmahera ... spoke grouped as the East Formosan Hesion, and except the lan ... 
classifying together languages spoken on the same island or island group ..... 
Palu, estimates of numbers of speakers vary between 200,000 and 300,000: a. [DOC] [TLE] The word 'sun' in all languages of the world [PAR] Apr 17, 2016 ... Language families on the world map - enlarge in the new window! ... the 
language (self-name: catal) belongs to occitan-romanian subgroup of roman ..... 
Tuvin is a Turkic language spoken by around 200,000 people in the Republic of 
Tuva in ..... Austronesian language, spoken on the islands of Tonga. [DOC] [TLE] The Austronesian languages - CiteSeerX [PAR] The large-scale structure of the Austronesian language family ..................... 30. 2.1
.1 ..... The languages of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands ........................... [DOC] [TLE] australia and the austronesians - School of Archaeology and ... [PAR] A Basic History of the Austronesian Languages 000. The Archaeology of Early 
...... islands belong to the biogeographical province of Wallacea, through which ... 
family in the world in number of languages, after the Niger-. Congo family of ... 
variation were spoken by populations exceeding 100,000 peo- ple. ..... 
FORMOSAN. [DOC] [TLE] the austronesian languages of asia and

Question: The Formosan languages, spoken by about 200,000 on this island, belong to the Austronesian family
Answer: Taiwan