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 39Molbog-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 Families1 linkNorthern 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 linkShowing 51 to 89 of 89, page 2 of 2.← Previous12Sources1. 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.