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Language families. Places where Austronesian languages are spoken are colored pink.

The Austronesian languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Southeast Asia and on islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is composed of about 1000 languages,[1] spread widely from Madagascar to Easter Island, from New Zealand to Taiwan. The languages started to be distinct from Proto-Austronesian language about 6000 years ago.

List of Austronesian languages

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  1. ↑ 1236 languages, according to Ethnologue 14th edition
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