Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to ...

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 ...

New genetic research reveals the complex demographic history of Vanuatu, explaining how Austronesian languages were retained throughout its history despite near-total replacement of early Austronesian ...

Over the years, Microsoft Translator has become an integral component for an increasing number of applications and platforms, including Bing, Skype, and Cortana on Windows 10. It has also appeared as ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract S. Huang and M. Tanangkingsing found that six Western Austronesian languages share the common property of giving greater attention to path ...

This paper presents a new higher phylogeny for the Austronesian family, based on three independent lines of evidence: the observation of a hierarchy of implications among the numerals from 5 to 10 in ...

Originating in the southeast coast of China and now used by around 400 million people around the world, the Austronesian language family is a trending topic among the world academic community. Now a ...

Pingtan in Southeast China's Fujian province shall build an Austronesian archaeological institute, the first of its kind in the country, local government announced recently. Austronesian languages are ...

Imagine the wealth of knowledge we could uncover if it was possible to travel back in time and re-construct ancient languages. While that’s impossible right now, scientists at UC Berkley and the ...