Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Austronesian (Oceanic) Languages›All Austronesian (Oceanic) LanguagesBrowse ByAll Austronesian (Oceanic) LanguagesAustronesian is the language family of maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands and Madagascar, and within the New Guinea and Pacific Language Families subcategory it covers every member descended from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the branch of Austronesian spoken outside Taiwan, together with the Formosan languages of Taiwan itself relabeled into this subcategory from Eurasian Language Families because their own sourced description identifies them as Austronesian rather than as members of any Eurasian phylum. Because the branch runs well past a hundred members in this subcategory alone, it is split into two child groups below, one covering the Philippine, Bornean, Sumatran and other western Malayo-Polynesian languages together with the Formosan languages of Taiwan, and the other covering the Oceanic languages of Melanesia, Micronesia's near relatives and the eastern Indonesian languages most closely related to Oceanic, each named for the region it covers.All Austronesian (Oceanic) LanguagesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)All Austronesian (Oceanic) LanguagesFilter Results121 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllAustronesian (2)Celebic languages (2)Central Philippine languages (2)Formosan (2)Malayo-Polynesian (6)South Sulawesi languages (1)Western Malayo-Polynesian languages (1)RegionAllAru Islands, Indonesia (1)Babar Islands, Indonesia (1)Central Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia (1)Central Taiwan (1)central Vanuatu (1)East Kalimantan, Indonesia (1)East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (1)eastern Flores and nearby islands, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia (1)Eastern New Guinea (1)Eastern Solomon Islands (1)Espiritu Santo Island in northern Vanuatu (1)Halmahera Sea and Raja Ampat Islands (1)Indonesia (1)Indonesia (Sulawesi) (2)Indonesian Borneo, Madagascar and the Sulu Archipelago (1)Islands between Mindoro and Palawan, Philippines (1)Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia (1)Manus Province, Papua New Guinea (1)Maritime Southeast Asia (1)Mindanao, Philippines, and Sabah, Malaysia (1)Mindoro Island, Philippines (1)New Caledonia (1)North Sumatra, Indonesia, and surrounding areas (1)Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao and Caraga, Philippines (1)Northern New Guinea (1)Northern New Guinea: Papua New Guinea and Indonesia (1)Northern Sarawak, Borneo (1)Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia (1)Northern Taiwan (1)Northern Vanuatu (1)Papua New Guinea (1)Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands (1)Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia (1)Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia (1)Sabah, Malaysia, on Borneo (1)Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands, Indonesia (1)South Borneo (Indonesia) and Madagascar (1)South Borneo (South Kalimantan), Indonesia (1)Southeast coast of Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia (1)southern coast of Mindanao Island, Philippines (1)Southern South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia (1)Sumba, eastern Indonesia (1)Tafea Province, Vanuatu (1)Taiwan (2)Temotu Province, eastern Solomon Islands (1)The Admiralty Islands (1)Vanuatu and New Caledonia (2)Western Central Luzon (Region III), Philippines (1)western Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia (1)Western Pacific (1)Zambales, Bolinao, Anda, Infanta, Olongapo (1)Speaker Count BandAll0.000000 (1)1500.000000 (1)9400.000000 (1)10000.000000 (1)38000.000000 (1)145000.000000 (1)250000.000000 (1)390000.000000 (1)2000000.000000 (2)3300000.000000 (1)4008000.000000 (1)4430000.000000 (1)12928780.000000 (1)115000000.000000 (1)326000000.000000 (1)385500000.000000 (1)In GroupAllAustronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (32)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (89)Macro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (121)Austronesian: Oceanic and Eastern Indonesia (32)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (89)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 100Admiralty Islands languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesApo Duat languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAru languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAtayalic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAti language (Philippines)New Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAustronesianNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAustronesian-Ongan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAustro-TaiNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBabar languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBadaic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBali-Sasak-Sumbawa languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBaritoNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBatakNew Guinea and Pacific Language 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Language FamiliesNorthwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNunusaku languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesOceanicNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesOld ChamNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPaitanic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPaiwan languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPapuan Tip languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPhilippineNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesProto-Austronesian languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesProto-Malayo-Polynesian languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPuyuma languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesRaja Ampat-South Halmahera languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesRukai languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSabahan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSaluan-Banggai languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSama-BajawNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSambalic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSangiric languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSirayaic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouth Halmahera languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouth Halmahera-West New Guinea languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouth Mindanao languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families12Next →Comments (0)No comments yet. 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