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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dispersal of the Austronesian language family from Southeast Asia represents the last major diaspora leading to the peopling of Oceania to the East and the Indian Ocean to the West. Several ...

The June 2026 voyage is not a return to an abstract Austronesian past. It is a renewal of Tao–Ivatan relations.

The east coast county of Taitung is home to beautiful mountains, valleys and beaches and it's also the place to experience different cultures. Taitung County has become a center of archaeology and ...

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 ...

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 ...

With its wealth of artifacts shining a light on the long history of the Austronesian language family, the new Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province has garnered widespread ...

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 ...