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| | Austronesian Navigation and Migration |
 | | Many scholars claim Austronesians are admixtures of Austroloids, a group which includes Veddoids, Australians, Negritos and Papuans; with Mongoloids. | | | Determining Longitude The methods by which Austronesians established longitude at sea is a controversial topic. | | | CONCLUSION Investigations of Austronesian survivals of navigational lore leave little doubt that they possessed skills that surpassed those of Columbus or Magellan who could only sail by means of latitude sailing. |
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http://www.geocities.com/pinatubo.geo/austro.htm
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| | AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Comprehensive Austronesian essay includes info on |
| | The Austronesian colonization of island Southeast Asia, according to linguistic reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian and archaeological evidence (Bellwood 1995), happened between 6,000 and 4,000 years ago. | | | Then, at the end of World War II, all Japanese citizens living in Taiwan ¡¥went home¡¦, leaving a political vacuum that was shortly thereafter, and again violently, filled by the KMT (Chinese Nationalist Party) retreating from CCP (Chinese Communist Party) defeat in Mainland China in 1949. | | | As in Singapre, the Malaysian economy prospered, but the wealth remained overwhelmingly in the hands of the Chinese (80%, according to Janet Hoskins, lecture, 2/12/2002), even though Malays (Austronesian Muslims) ostensibly control the government. |
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http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22689
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| | Pacific islands archaeology |
| | Moreover, genetic evidence (such as mtDNA and hemoglobin markers) supports the view that the Lapita phenomenon reflects a substantial population intrusion into the Bismarck Archipelago, deriving out of island Southeast Asia (Hill and Serjeantson 1989). | | | Numerous radiocarbon-dated archaeological sites document that Lapita sites in all of these archipelagoes no later than 900 B.C. We have already noted that the westernmost islands of Micronesia were colonized directly out of island Southeast Asia by Austronesian speakers ca. | | | Based on linguistic and archaeological evidence, early Austronesian societies were characterized by some degree of internal ranking (especially between senior and junior branches of a descent line), but were probably heterarchical rather than hierarchical in structure. |
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http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~oal/background/pacislands.htm
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| | Austronesian Vocabulary |
| | Many of the citizens also speak Indonesian, but they prefer to call it Malay to avoid the association with their former rulers. | | | Kemak is one of a handful of other languages which are spoken on Timur, some Austronesian, others not. | | | It is the Austronesian language that was spoken in Manila when the Philippines gained their independence from Spain; as the language of the capital it became the national standard. |
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http://www.gbarto.com/languages/austronesian.html
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| | Austronesian Languages |
| | Anthropologists believe that Austronesian speakers began migrating from their homeland in Southeast Asia about 3,000 or 4,000 years ago, and went on to settle almost all of the Pacific islands. | | | Surprisingly, Malagasy, the official language of the nation of Madagascar, is part of the Austronesian family, despite its location thousands of miles away from core area of Austronesian speakers. | | | (Austronesian means "southern islands" in Greek.) This massive language family boasts over 1,000 languages, making it the largest family in the world. |
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http://www.concentric.net/~chanska/home/austro.html
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| | News Article - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan |
| | Taiwan's aborigines were considered the northernmost Austronesian people. | | | The annual festival, organized by the Taitung county government and the National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung City, is the fifth of its kind since the first was held in 2000. | | | In addition to visiting an exhibition of artifacts, handicrafts and historical relics, festival-goers will also be able to get a better understanding of the movements of the Austronesian people and of their cultures. |
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http://www.atayal.org/NewsView.asp?catID=48
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| | Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Austronesian |
| | WM's Austronesian and Other Indo-Pacific Links · cached · Collection of web resources for Austronesian and related topics including general information, mailing lists, bibligraphies and pointers to home pages with topical material. | | | The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely, geographically distributed language groups extending from Madagascar in the west, Easter Island in the east, Hawai`i in the north and New Zealand in the south. | | | Austronesian Park To Be Included in Budget Plan · cached · News article about the creation of a cultural park for Austronesian-speaking peoples, located in Taiwan. |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=143501
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| | Voice in Austronesian |
| | On September 1, 1995, a workshop on 'Voice in Austronesian' was held as part of the SLE conference at Leiden University. | | | Apart from the speakers, there were not too many people in the audience - there was nobody from the Indonesian linguistics department, which was a pity. | | | It was a workshop in the real sense of the word: previously unknown data were presented, old ideas were re-evaluated against new insights, and everyone learned useful, new things about the fascinating enigmas of Austronesian voice. |
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http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/iiasn/iiasn6/southeas/austro.html
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| | Oceania: Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living |
| | While most authors make some reference to the house as a social unit, the tendency among the authors, with the notable exception of James Fox, is to view these units as either somewhat distorted `descent groups' or as loose `kinship groups'. | | | Fox, in his all too brief discussion of changes in Rotinese house design associated with modernisation campaigns on the part of the Indonesian government in the early 1970s, hints at the existence and impact of these other orders. | | | In referring to colonial orders and practices, Young and van Meijl indirectly point to one of the primary limitations of previous and, in some cases, more recent ethnographies on eastern Indonesian societies. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_199609/ai_n8737708
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| | Austronesian family is the largest language family in the world, consisting of more than 900 languages. | | | Austronesian family Polynesian is a small subgroup of the language family called Austronesian (originally called Malayo-Polynesian). | | | Subgrouping Subgrouping of the Austronesian family is a matter of continuing debate. |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~yotsuka/course/345-ANF04.doc
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| | Keywords » Austronesian |
| | (Most of them are categorized as Formosan Austronesian, with the exception of Yami, which is Malayo-Polynesian Austronesian.) At the end of World War II there were 17 Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan. | | | However, personal communication with SIL researcher, Greg Huteson, who has been speaking to many of Taiwan& top linguist about the topic, suggests that these statistics are inaccurate.) | | | Many of these are in serious danger of dying out, with less than half of them having more than five thousand speakers. |
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http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2003/10/04/austronesian
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| | LINGUIST List 14.2376: General Ling/Austronesian; Computational Ling |
| | Only in recent time has there been systematic study of the syntax of adjuncts in these languages. | | | What bearing does evidence from Austronesian languages have on the three major theories of adjunct positioning? | | | Invited speakers: Nikolaus Himmelman (Bochum) Ed Keenan (UCLA) Lisa Travis (McGill) Abstracts are invited for a 30-minute talk (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for questions and discussions) on the formal analysis of Austronesian languages. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/14/14-2376.html
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| | Austronesian Partitives (ResearchIndex) |
| | Abstract: This paper discusses partitive constructions in a few Austronesian languages, which suggest, it is argued, that the embedded phrase in partitives serves as an argument of the numeral (or the numeral classifier), and not as its modifier. | | | Partitives in a few Austronesian languages present evidence for the head-argument semantic structure. | | | Online articles have much greater impact More about CiteSeer.IST Add search form to your site Submit documents Feedback |
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lander01austronesian.html
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| | Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database |
| | These languages all belong to the Austronesian language family, which is the largest family in the world. | | | These words correspond to basic items of vocabulary, such as simple verbs like 'to walk', or 'to fly', the names of body parts like hand or mouth, colors like red, numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) and kinship terms such as Mother, Father and Person. | | | This database contains 60,060 lexical items from 332 languages spoken throughout the Pacific region. |
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http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz
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| | The 10th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics |
| | The 10th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL) will be hosted by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL International, 17-20 January 2006 in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, the Philippines. | | | If overnight stays outside the city are planned, various inexpensive malaria medications are available in local pharmacies. | | | Plenary speakers will be Dr. Lawrence Reid (Aspects of the Morphosyntax of Proto-Northern Luzon) and Dr. Nicole Revel (Memory of Voice: Archiving and analyzing oral compositions). |
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http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical.html
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| | LINGUIST List 11.66: Quantitative Ling, Austronesian Formal Ling |
| | Abstracts relating to this year's main themes (see below) are particularly encouraged, though abstracts on other topics will also be considered. | | | Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (20 minute presentations + 10 minute question period) on any aspect of formal linguistics (e.g., phonology, phonetics, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, language contact) of any Austronesian language. | | | FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The program will be announced following the notification of acceptance on March 1, 2000, and will be posted with the selected abstracts on the website after March 1, 2000. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/11/11-66.html
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| | Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association |
| | Abstracts are invited for a 30 minute talk (20 minutes for presentation +10 minutes for questions and discussions) on any aspect of formal Austronesian linguistics. | | | Abstracts are to be typed, maximum 500 words with one optional page for data and references. |
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http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/afla/newcall.htm
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| | LINGUIST List 2.54: Textbook, Austronesian Conf, Arabic proverbs |
| | Is anyone going to the International Austronesian Conference in Hawaii in May that would like to share accomodations? | | | The addresses below have been confirmed to work: garof%sixcom.it | | | I keep on looking for the holy grail: a good textbook for a graduate level introduction to linguistics. |
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http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/2/2-54.html
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| | Ethnologue: Taiwan |
| | West central coast and inland, Tatu and Choshui rivers and beyond, around 24'N. Austronesian, Formosan, Paiwanic. | | | (HOANNYA, KALI) [HON] West central, from Taihsi to Peimen to Tsou language area, south of 24'N. Austronesian, Formosan, Paiwanic. | | | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Northern Philippine, Bashiic-Central Luzon-Northern Mindoro, Bashiic, Yami. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www3/ethno/Taiw.html
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