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 ...

The Austronesian language family is one of the largest in the world, comprising more than 1,200 languages spoken from Madagascar to Hawaii. Dang Liu, Albert Min-Shan Ko and Mark Stoneking collected ...

Microsoft has been hard at work adding six new languages to Microsoft Translator, which the company says will unlock communication opportunities for 119 million Austronesian speakers around the world.

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 ...

– 12 November 2024 - The 2024 Austronesian Languages Revitalization Forum, organized by Taiwan's Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation (ILRDF), centers on the theme of "Building ...

The Austronesian Expansion, which began around 5,500 years ago likely in modern-day Taiwan, was the most geographically extensive dispersal of farming peoples in prehistory, ultimately carrying people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ascertaining the genetic relationships between Austronesian populations is paramount to understanding their dispersal throughout the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The start of the ...