Directory of Austronesian Resources

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The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely, geographically distributed language groups extending from Madagascar in the west, Easter Island in the east, Hawai`i in the north and New Zealand in the south. The Austronesian language family comprises of four main branches: Atayalic, Paiwanic, Tsouic and Malayo-Polynesian, the first three of which are found on the island of Formosa (or Taiwan), and therefore placed beneath the top-level category "Formosan". All other languages fall beneath Malayo-Polynesian, which has been subdivided into Eastern, Central and Western language groups.

Subcategories

• Conferences
• Formosan
• Mailing Lists
• Malayo-Polynesian

Resources in This Category

• Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database

  http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/
  Gives basic words in many Austronesian languages.

• Austronesian Languages

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages
  A brief description of Austronesian languages, with links to example languages, and classification schemes.

• Austronesian Vocabulary

  http://www.gbarto.com/languages/austronesian.html
  A comparison of 24 words in 6 Austronesian languages.

• ECAI - Pacific Language Mapping

  http://www.ecai.org/austronesiaweb/PacificAtlasImageMaps.htm
  Language maps of the Pacific Island region, reproduced from Wurm and Hattori's atlas, including Austronesian and Papuan languages.

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