Austronesian

10 languages

A standardized form of Malay. The official language of the worlds fourth most populous country. Rema...

The basis for Filipino, the national language of the Philippines. Heavily influenced by Spanish with...

The largest language without official status in any country. Spoken on Java, the worlds most populou...

Nearly went extinct but revived through immersion schools. Has only 13 phonemes, the smallest of any...

The language of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand. Experienced a major revival since the 19...

The language of Madagascar. Genetically closest to languages spoken 7,000 km away in Borneo. Proof o...

A great maritime trade language for over a thousand years. The base of Indonesian and Malaysian stan...

The second most spoken regional language of Indonesia. Native to West Java, the most populous provin...

The second most spoken language of the Philippines. Native to Cebu and the central and southern isla...

A Polynesian language of about a dozen letters plus a glottal stop. Every syllable ends in a vowel. ...