Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›Austronesian (Oceanic) Languages›Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western IndonesiaGroupAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western IndonesiaThis 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.FactsBrowse BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested150 1Browse ByAll Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western IndonesiaAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia89 entriesAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western IndonesiaFilter Results89 entriesMacro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (89)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (89)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAustronesian (2)Celebic languages (2)Central Philippine languages (2)Formosan (2)Malayo-Polynesian (4)South Sulawesi languages (1)Western Malayo-Polynesian languages (1)Speaker Count BandAll0 (1)24,600 to 795,000 (4)592 to 23,000 (2)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (8)RegionAllAfrica (6)Asia (59)Australia (3)Borneo (2)East Asia (6)Indonesia (9)Luzon (3)Malaysia (3)Maritime Southeast Asia (2)Philippines (9)South Sulawesi (2)Southeast Asia (6)Taiwan (7)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (34)Classification StatusAllEstablished (51)Number of LanguagesAll1 (7)2 (3)16 to 1,408 (13)3 to 5 (10)6 to 15 (25)In GroupAllAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (89)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Apo Duat languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAru languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAtayalic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkAti language (Philippines)New Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesAustronesianNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families11 linksAustronesian-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 Families1 linkBaritoNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBatakNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkBatanic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBerawan-Lower Baram languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBetawi languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBikolNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkBisakol languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesBisayanNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families4 linksBungku-Tolaki languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkBunun languageNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCelebic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families3 linksCentral Cordilleran languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCentral Flores languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCentral Luzon languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCentral Malayo-Polynesian languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkCentral Philippine languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families3 linksChamicNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesCocos MalayNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesDanao languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesDusunic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesEast Barito languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkEast Formosan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkFavorlangNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesFlores-Lembata languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesFormosanNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families4 linksGorontalo-Mongondow languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesGreater Central Philippine languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesGreater North Borneo languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesIbanic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKaili-Pamona languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKalamian languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKayan-Murik languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesKenyah languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesLand Dayak languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMahakam languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMakassar languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMalayicNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMalayo-PolynesianNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families18 linksManobo languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMinahasan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesShowing 1 to 50 of 89, page 1 of 2.12Next →Sources1. Wikipedia: Philippine Languagestier 2WikipediaLead section, language-count sentenceQuote, Lead section, language-count sentenceAlthough 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.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.