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.FactsAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western IndonesiaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested150 1Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western IndonesiaFilter Results89 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllAtayalic languages (1)Austronesian (2)Batak (1)Bikol (1)Bisayan (1)Bungku-Tolaki languages (1)Celebic languages (3)Central Malayo-Polynesian languages (1)Central Philippine languages (3)Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages (1)East Formosan languages (1)Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages (1)Formosan (3)Malayo-Polynesian (5)Northern South Sulawesi languages (1)South Sulawesi languages (1)Western Malayo-Polynesian languages (2)Wotu-Wolio languages (1)RegionAllAru Islands, Indonesia (1)Babar Islands, Indonesia (1)Central Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia (1)Central Taiwan (1)East Kalimantan, Indonesia (1)East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (1)eastern Flores and nearby islands, Lesser Sundas, 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)Maritime Southeast Asia (1)Mindanao, Philippines, and Sabah, Malaysia (1)Mindoro Island, Philippines (1)North Sumatra, Indonesia, and surrounding areas (1)Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao and Caraga, Philippines (1)Northern Sarawak, Borneo (1)Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia (1)Northern Taiwan (1)Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia (1)Sabah, Malaysia, on Borneo (1)South Borneo (Indonesia) and Madagascar (1)South Borneo (South Kalimantan), Indonesia (1)southern coast of Mindanao Island, Philippines (1)Southern South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia (1)Sumba, eastern Indonesia (1)Taiwan (2)Taiwan, spoken by the island's Indigenous peoples. (1)Western Central Luzon (Region III), Philippines (1)western Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia (1)Zambales, Bolinao, Anda, Infanta, Olongapo (1)Speaker Count BandAll145000.000000 (1)250000.000000 (1)390000.000000 (1)2000000.000000 (1)3300000.000000 (1)4008000.000000 (1)4430000.000000 (1)115000000.000000 (1)326000000.000000 (1)385500000.000000 (1)In GroupAllAustronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (89)Macro-areaAllAustronesian (Oceanic) Languages (89)Austronesian: Philippines, Borneo and Western Indonesia (89)BrowseCompareSelect all 89Apo 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 Families10 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 FamiliesBaritoNew 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 Families1 linkBungku-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 FamiliesEast 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 Families7 linksManobo languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMinahasan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMolbog-Bonggi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMuna-Buton languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesMusi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNorth Sarawakan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNortheastern Luzon languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNorthern Formosan languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNorthern Luzon languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNorthern Philippine languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesNorthern South Sulawesi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkNorthwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesOld ChamNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPaitanic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesPaiwan languageNew 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 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 Mindanao languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouth Sulawesi languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkSouthern Cordilleran languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouthern Mindoro languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSouthwest Tanimbar languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSubanen languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSumba languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesSumba-Hawu languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTamanic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTimoric languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTomini-Tolitoli languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesTsouic languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesWest Barito languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language FamiliesWestern Malayo-Polynesian languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families2 linksWotu-Wolio languagesNew Guinea and Pacific Language Families1 linkSources1. 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.