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Aus·tro·ne·sian

(ô′strō-nē′zhən)

adj.

Of or relating to Austronesia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

A family of languages that includes the Formosan, Indonesian, Malay, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian subfamilies.

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Austronesian

(ˌɒstrəʊˈniːʒən; -ʃən)

adj

1. (Placename) of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages

2. (Peoples) of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages

3. (Languages) of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages

(Languages) another name for Malayo-Polynesian

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Aus•tro•ne•sian

(ˌɔ stroʊˈni ʒən, -ʃən)

n.

1. a language family that includes all the non-Papuan, non-Australian languages of peoples indigenous to Oceania, the Indonesian archipelago, Taiwan, and the Philippines, as well as Malay and Chamic in SE Asia and Malagasy on Madagascar.

adj.

2. of Austronesia or Austronesian.

[1900–1905]

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Noun 1. Austronesian - a native or inhabitant of Austronesia

Austronesia - islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)

denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller - a person who inhabits a particular place

Nauruan - a native or inhabitant of Nauru

Polynesian - a native or inhabitant of Polynesia

2. Austronesian - the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia

Austronesian language

natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesian - the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific

Aboriginal Australian, Australian - the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines

Formosan - the Austronesian languages spoken on Formosa

Adj. 1. Austronesian - of or relating to or characteristic of Austronesia or its people or culture

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austronésien

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In addition to these structural features, there is some lexical evidence for a maritime population in the Sulu Sea-eastern Indonesia area, a population that Mahdi (1994a) refers to as 'Australoid' Austronesians that acted as a substrate to, and preceded, the 'main' Austronesian dispersal.

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Brindley does not even mention the opposing view--notably that of Solheim and of this reviewer on the archaeological evidence, Oppenheimer and Richards on DNA --that the Austronesians originated to the south, in the present-day Philippines and Indonesia.

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