Austronesian

Speech parts

1. Austronesian - Noun

2. Austronesian - Adjective

Meaning

the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia

a native or inhabitant of Austronesia

of or relating to or characteristic of Austronesia or its people or culture

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Austronesian language Australia Aussie tongue denizen Malayo-Polynesian natural language New Holland ozzie Ossie Commonwealth of Australia native Australian Land Down Under australian continent oz
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Hypernyms

habitant tongue inhabitant dweller denizen indweller

Hyponyms

australian polynesian Nauruan Formosan Malayo-Polynesian Aboriginal Australian

Examples

All Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan (including its offshore Yami language ) belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch, sometimes called Extra-Formosan. Source: Internet

Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians have descended from a South Pacific proto-culture created by an Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) people that had migrated from Southeast Asia. Source: Internet

An Austronesian Village showing several traditional houses, Malagasy levu). Source: Internet

Austronesian peoples added to the native Melanesian population around 2000 BCE. citation Melanesian features are strongest in the islands of Kei and Aru and amongst the interior people of Seram and Buru islands. Source: Internet

Austronesians expansion map An Austronesian outrigger canoe ; Malagasy vahoaka "people" is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *va-waka "people of the canoe". Source: Internet

Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan, pp. 683–726, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Austromarxist Austromuellera trinervia Austronesia Austronesian language Austronesianist Austrophil