• Hukumina is an extinct Austronesian language recently spoken in the northwest of Buru Island in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It had one native...
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  • an extinct and unattested language. It is believed to have been very closely related to the Austronesian language Hukumina, and perhaps a dialect of it...
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    tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
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  • or HUW may refer to: Huw, a Welsh given name Hukumina language, spoken in Indonesia, ISO 639-3 language code huw Humaitá Airport, in Amazonas, Brazil...
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    Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو‎) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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  • Another extinct Buru language is the fragmentarily attested Hukumina language. The Taliabo languages (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo) were once...
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    The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/ AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland...
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  • pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...
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    Cebuano (/sɛˈbwɑːnoʊ/ se-BWAH-noh) is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines. It is natively, though informally, called by its generic...
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  • in Eastern Indonesia: The Cases of Kayeli and Hukumina". In Florey, Margaret (ed.). Endangered Languages of Austronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press...
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    idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern...
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  • Moriori, or ta rē Moriori ('the Moriori language'), is a Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori. It is spoken by the Moriori, the...
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    additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages. The official language of Indonesia...
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  • extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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    western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers...
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    Binisayâ/Bisayâ nga Hiniligaynon/Inilonggo, is an Austronesian regional language spoken in the Philippines by about 9.1 million people, predominantly in...
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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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    extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua...
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  • Kutai is a Malayic language spoken by 300,000 to 500,000 people. It is the native language of the Kutai people (Indonesian: Suku Kutai, Kutai: Urang Kutai)[what...
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    The Ivatan language, also known as Chirin nu Ivatan ("language of the Ivatan people"), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Batanes Islands of the...
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    Chamorro (CNMI[expand acronym]), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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    The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not...
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  • Simalungun, or Batak Simalungun, is an Austronesian language of Sumatra. It is spoken mainly in Simalungun Regency and Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra...
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    (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa; IPA: [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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    Philippine languages (40 languages, including Tagalog, Bikol languages and Visayan languages) Palawan languages (3 languages) Subanen languages (6 languages; sometimes...
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    Formosan language of the Amis (or Ami), an indigenous people living along the east coast of Taiwan. Currently the largest of the Formosan languages, it is...
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    Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken...
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    The Karay-a language (Kinaray-a, Binisayâ nga Kinaray-a or Hinaraya; English: Harayan) is an Austronesian regional language in the Philippines spoken...
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    (Basa Magindanawn, Jawi: باس مڬندنون‎), or Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by Maguindanaon people who form majority of the population of eponymous...
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  • ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian...
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