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Austronesian peoples

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austric languagesa proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as Kra–Dai and Austroasiatic languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia.
indigenous peoples of oceaniaAboriginal Australians, Papuans, and Austronesians (Melanesians,Including Torres Strait Islanders Micronesians, and Polynesians).
pacific islander americans(also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the Indigenous peoples of Oceania).
proto-malayo-polynesian languageProto-Malayo-Polynesian is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family.
pasifika new zealanders(also called Pacific Peoples) a pan-ethnic group of New Zealanders associated with, and descended from, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands (also known as Pacific Islanders) outside of New Zealand itself.
polynesian narrative
hakka chineseHakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: , ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.
history of tuvaluThe first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians, so the origins of the people of Tuvalu can be traced to the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands of Polynesia.
bantu peoplesan indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
austro-tai languagesThe Austro-Tai languages, sometimes also Austro-Thai languages, are a proposed language family that comprises the Austronesian languages and Kra–Dai languages.
oceanian culture
taiwanese peoplethe citizens and nationals of the Republic of China and those who reside in an overseas diaspora from the entire Taiwan Area.
history of southeast asiaThe history of Southeast Asia covers the people of Southeast Asia from prehistory to the present in two distinct sub-regions: Mainland Southeast Asia (or Indochina) and Maritime Southeast Asia (or Insular Southeast Asia).
melanesian languagesIn linguistics, Melanesian is an obsolete term referring to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages apart from Polynesian and Micronesian.
indo-aryan languagesThe (or sometimes simply Indic languages) a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
hokkiennoun(chiefly Southeast Asia) A linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.
lapita culturethe name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE.
south asian ethnic groups
australo-melanesiannoun(archaic, anthropology) A member of a grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia, sometimes also including some groups found in parts of South and Southeast Asia.
mongolic languagesa language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia.

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