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Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia

This child group, under Austronesian (Oceanic) Languages, holds the western half of the New Guinea and Pacific subcategory's Austronesian membership: the Philippine languages, including the Bisayan, Central Philippine, Northern and Central Luzon and Cordilleran groups, the many languages of Borneo, including the Land Dayak, Barito, North Sarawakan and Sabahan groups, the Malayic and Sumatran languages, the Sulawesi languages, including the Celebic, Minahasan and South Sulawesi groups, the Lesser Sunda and southern Moluccan languages closer to the Philippine and Bornean side of the family than to Oceanic, the mainland Southeast Asian Chamic languages, and the Formosan languages of Taiwan, relabeled here from Eurasian Language Families because their own sourced description identifies them as Austronesian rather than as a member of any Eurasian phylum, together with the family's own highest level nodes, Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Austro-Tai and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, filed here as the branch's western anchor.

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Estimated Living Languages
150 1
Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia
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Apo Duat languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Aru languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Atayalic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Ati language (Philippines)

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Austronesian

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
10 links

Austronesian-Ongan languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Austro-Tai

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Babar languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Badaic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Barito

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Batak

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Batanic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Berawan-Lower Baram languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Betawi language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Bikol

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Bisakol languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Bisayan

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Bungku-Tolaki languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Bunun language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Celebic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
3 links

Central Cordilleran languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Central Flores languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Central Luzon languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Central Malayo-Polynesian languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Central Philippine languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
3 links

Chamic

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Cocos Malay

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Danao languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Dusunic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

East Barito languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

East Formosan languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Favorlang

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Flores-Lembata languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Formosan

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
4 links

Gorontalo-Mongondow languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Greater Central Philippine languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Greater North Borneo languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Ibanic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Kaili-Pamona languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Kalamian languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Kayan-Murik languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Kenyah languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Land Dayak languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Mahakam languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Makassar languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Malayic

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Malayo-Polynesian

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
7 links

Manobo languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Minahasan languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Molbog-Bonggi languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Muna-Buton languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Musi languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

North Sarawakan languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Northeastern Luzon languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Northern Formosan languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Northern Luzon languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Northern Philippine languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Northern South Sulawesi languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Old Cham

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Paitanic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Paiwan language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Philippine

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Proto-Austronesian language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Puyuma language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Rukai language

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sabahan languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Saluan-Banggai languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sama-Bajaw

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sambalic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sangiric languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sirayaic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

South Mindanao languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

South Sulawesi languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link

Southern Cordilleran languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Southern Mindoro languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Southwest Tanimbar languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Subanen languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sumba languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Sumba-Hawu languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Tamanic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Timoric languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Tomini-Tolitoli languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Tsouic languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

West Barito languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

Western Malayo-Polynesian languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
2 links

Wotu-Wolio languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
1 link
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Philippine Languages
WikipediaLead section, language-count sentence
Quote, Lead section, language-count sentence
Although the Philippines is near the center of Austronesian expansion from Taiwan, there is relatively little linguistic diversity among the approximately 150 Philippine languages, suggesting that earlier diversity has been erased by the spread of the ancestor of the modern Philippine languages.
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