Austronesian Language Family
The Austronesian Language Family is one of the largest language families in the world, comprising over 1,200 languages. It is primarily spoken in regions such as Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Madagascar. This family includes well-known languages like Tagalog, Javanese, and Hawaiian.
Austronesian languages are characterized by their diverse phonetic systems and grammatical structures. They are divided into several branches, including Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan. The languages share common features, such as a focus on verb-subject-object sentence structure and the use of reduplication for grammatical purposes.