NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of Austronesia
- the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of Austronesia or its people or culture
How To Use Austronesian In A Sentence
- The separation and military training of males was bolstered by another general feature of Formosan Austronesian culture: a culture of intervillage warfare. How Taiwan Became Chinese
- Timor-LesteAustronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority Ethnic groups
- Ethnic groups: Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority Timor-Leste
- The Taiwanese austronesian nationalities ever had advanced technology of weave, but unfortunately, this technology has not been succeeded.
- Otherwise, the tongues spoken in Indonesia belong to several branches of the Austronesian language family.
- Most still speak the Cham language, which belongs to the Austronesian family [and appears most closely related to the language of Aceh, Indonesia], but all are bilingual in Khmer.
- The Tai-Kadai languages are thought to have originated in what is now southern China and some linguists have proposed links to the Austroasiatic Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan language families. Planet-x.com.au » Travel Talk THAI – 2 yourself talking teach travel auckland sale
- A standard view in Japanese academic circles is that Japanese was developed as a mixed language between an Austronesian substratum and an Altaic (or ‘Northern’ by the more doubtful) superstratum.
- Slide 8: The Ramage or Conical Clan • Internally ranked, or hierarchical, social organization • Tendency to "ramify," that is subordinate lineages split off main group to found new communities • Over time this process results in long-distance - island-hopping - migrations that resulted in peopling of Polynesia by Austronesian-speaking peoples Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- We know that the ancient Austronesians grew rice, millet, and sugar cane.
