THE languages known as Austronesian are spoken by more than 380 million people in territories that include Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific. How ...

During the forum, local scholars and international experts, including members from New Zealand's Te Mātāwai, an organization for Maori language revitalization, discussed strategies and measures for ...

A 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque discovered on a remote Indonesian island is the first known example of portable art belonging to the Austronesian Painting Tradition (APT), providing a rare ...

Genetic insights into the origin, admixture, and migration of the early Austronesian peoples It is understood that Austronesian ancestors appeared in Taiwan ~6 thousand years ago (Kya), and later ...

In Memoriam: Isidore Dyen, Was a Specialist in Austronesian Languages Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and ...

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading out ...

Chinese archaeologists uncovered a 7,300-year-old civilisation on Pingtan island, off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China, that indicates the island could have been an originating ...

Complex genetic data now confirms that mitochondrial DNA found in Pacific islanders was present in Island Southeast Asia at a much earlier period. The languages known as Austronesian are spoken by ...