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Austronesian languages

Family of languages spoken in Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, parts of the region that was formerly Indochina, Taiwan, Madagascar, Melanesia, and Polynesia (excluding Australia and most of New Guinea). The group contains some 500 distinct languages, including Malay in Malaysia, Bahasa in Indonesia, Fijian, Hawaiian, and Maori.

There are 1,200 Austronesian languages and, according to US research published in February 2000, nine of the ten subgroups are found only in Taiwan.



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