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Austronesian language

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Noun1.Austronesian language - the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
Austronesian
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesian - the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific
Aboriginal Australian, Australian - the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
Formosan - the Austronesian languages spoken on Formosa


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PACIFIC DIASPORA On the opposite side of the planet, in Auckland, Gray has been using similar methods to produce an Austronesian language tree.
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The Negritos apparently adopted Austronesian languages as their own and later developed separate dialects and daughter languages, he asserts.
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