• Paulohi is a nearly extinct Austronesian language spoken on Seram Island in eastern Indonesia. Paulohi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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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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    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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    Erwin Stresemann (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    poetry, philosophy and linguistics. He published a monograph on the Paulohi language based on studies made during his ornithological expedition to the Indonesian...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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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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  • (Piru), Manipa; Larike-Wakasihu, Boano East Piru Bay Sepa, Teluti Solehua Paulohi Seram Straits Kaibobo Ambon: Hitu, Tulehu; Laha, Seit-Kaitetu Uliase (Lease...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Austronesian language and dialect continuum spoken in Madagascar. The standard variety, called Official Malagasy, is an official language of Madagascar...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa...
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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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    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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    Ilokano; /iːloʊˈkɑːnoʊ/; Ilocano: Pagsasao nga Ilokano) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, primarily by Ilocano people and as a lingua...
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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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    The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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  • Caluyanon is a regional Western Bisayan language spoken in the Semirara Island Group, Caluya, Antique in the Philippines. Most of its speakers use either...
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    بهسا اچيه‎) is an Austronesian language natively spoken by the Acehnese people in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. This language is also spoken by Acehnese descendants...
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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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    (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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  • Southern Sorsogon (also Waray Sorsogon, Gubat) is a Bisayan language spoken in the southern part of Sorsogon, Philippines, in the municipalities of Gubat...
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