Examples of using Austronesian in English and their translations into Serbian
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Tonality in Austronesian Languages.
Southern Chinese borrows more from Tai or Austronesian languages.
Austronesian seafarers and later Maldivian and Arab traders were the first to visit the uninhabited islands.
Similarities to other Austronesian languages.
New genetic research has found that the Nias people of North Sumatra came from the Austronesian peoples.
The people living there are predominantly from Austronesian subgroupings and correspondingly speak western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Ancient tattooing was most widely practiced among the Austronesian people.
Most speak either one of the many Austronesian languages, especially in the Oceanic branch of Malayo-Polynesian, or one of the Papuan languages.
Despite the geographical distance,there are many shared words between different Austronesian languages.
Some scholars assume that Austronesian seafarers and later Maldivian and Arab traders were the first to visit uninhabited Seychelles.
There are around ten Papuan languages spoken and about forty Austronesian languages, as well as Tok Pisin and English.
Oceanic or Austronesian people called Malayo-Polynesians settled Cebu island and the rest of the Philippines around 30,000 years ago.
Alternatives to this model posit an indigenous origin for the Austronesian languages in Southeast Asia or Melanesia.
In a gist, Malays are an Austronesian ethnic group and nation native to the Malay Peninsula, eastern Sumatra of Indonesia and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands which lie between these locations- areas that are collectively known as the Malay world.
The archipelago was first inhabited by Bantu speakers who came from East Africa,supplemented by Arab and Austronesian immigration.
This region of Southeast Asia shares more social andcultural ties with other Austronesian peoples in the Pacific than with the peoples of mainland Southeast Asia.
The majority of these regional languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian language family sub-group, andthis sub-group belongs to the Austronesian language family.
They are distinguished ethnically andlinguistically from the Austronesians of Melanesia, speakers of Austronesian languages introduced into New Guinea and nearby islands about 3,000 years ago.
While at the University of Illinois Bloomfield undertook research on Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines.
Although it is known that there was a migration of the Austronesian peoples between Taiwan and the Indonesian archipelago including Nias, it is still uncertain if the migration started from Taiwan to Nias or vice versa.
This region of SoutheastAsia shares social and cultural ties with the peoples of mainland Southeast Asia and with other Austronesian peoples in the Pacific.
Archeological and linguistic evidence indicates that these beliefs date back to the arrival of Austronesian peoples, although elements were later syncretistically adapted from Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Islam.
However, according to recent genetic study, Javanese together with Sundanese andBalinese has almost equal ratio of genetic marker shared between Austronesian and Austroasiatic heritages.
There is evidence of genetic andlinguistic interchange between Australians in the far north and the Austronesian peoples of modern-day New Guinea and the islands, but this may be the result of recent trade and intermarriage.
With the age of colonialism and Christian evangelism, the Latin script spread beyond Europe,coming into use for writing indigenous American, Austronesian and African languages.
According to a recent studies by Stanford University,there is wide variety of paternal ancestry among the Austronesian people, aside from European introgression found in Maritime Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Madagascar.
Winstedt supported this opinion,noting that in many Austronesian languages, words which suggest'something set out in rows' gradually gain the new meaning of'well-arranged words', in prose or in poetry.[28] Ari Welianto suggested that pantun is originated from Minangkabau word of patuntun which means"guide".[29].
He made significant contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics,the description of Austronesian languages, and description of languages of the Algonquian family.
Archaeological evidence demonstrates a technological connection between the farming cultures of the south(Southeast Asia and Melanesia) and sites that are first known from mainland China, whereas a combination of archaeological and linguistic evidence has been interpreted as supportinga northern(southern China and Taiwan) origin for the Austronesian language family.
It is theoretically possible that a few thousand years before the southward expansion of the Han dynasty that Austronesian speakers spread down the coast of southern China past Taiwan as far as the Gulf of Tonkin.