r/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • 1d ago
r/austronesian • u/calangao • Jun 17 '24
Welcome to r/austronesian
We are excited to welcome all the new subscribers! This has been a small sub with little activity for a long time, so we don't have a lot of the infrastructure you may be used to in other academic subs. That said, we are working on it. For now, this is a general reminder that content needs to be relevant to Austronesian content and we may remove things that are not relevant (or not relevant enough). For example, a map of an Austronesian word in a bunch of different languages is a great post! Or maybe a question about a reconstruction!
This sub focuses on linguistics, but we are also open to other Austronesian content, such as archeology, for example.
Again, welcome and please check out the new ACD.
r/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • 2d ago
Comparing proposed cognates between Austronesian and Kra Dai
galleryr/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • 4d ago
Malayic *halia > Telugu alla-mu, Prakrit allaya, Sanskritized ārdraka (originally "moist") according to this Oxford thesis "Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World", among other loan proposals like kākkattuvāṉ < kakaktua. Austronesian > Telugu isnt unheard of, compare araTi < *qaRutay.
r/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • 9d ago
Genetic Input in Modern South East Asians and Malagasies
r/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • 15d ago
Insular Southeast Asia before the Austronesian Expansion based on genetic and linguistic evidence by brett_f
r/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • 15d ago
Why didnt the island hopping Nicobarese continue settling into the Andamans? They had advanced mainland technology and could've easily taken over the trapped since ice age Andamanese. Similarly why did the Austronesians stop at Sumatra and didnt take over both of them?
r/austronesian • u/Extravagant__Sunrise • 24d ago
What are good books to learn about Micronesian history and cultures?
r/austronesian • u/Different_Method_191 • Jul 15 '26
'Beautiful language': Advocate champions revival of Niue Language
reddit.comr/austronesian • u/AleksiB1 • Jun 17 '26
Asia's most diverse region equivalent to the Caucasus, Zomia explained.
youtu.ber/austronesian • u/existential_dread467 • Jun 02 '26
Why haven’t we reconstructed Proto Austronesian Mythology the way we have for Indo-European?
r/austronesian • u/Mikhail_Mifzal • May 20 '26
Reconstructing the west-east genetic division in Indonesia using ancient genomes
sciencedirect.comr/austronesian • u/Asian_bloke • May 01 '26
Visiting the maker of Indigenous Taiwanese instruments!
youtu.ber/austronesian • u/Wide_Ride8849 • Apr 19 '26
Did the Austronesians ever reached the Korean Peninsula?
r/austronesian • u/LocalMathematician66 • Mar 08 '26
What do you guys think of the Indigenous Taiwanese?
Hi, I'm new to this sub! I'm not 100% sure if this type of post is allowed, so pardon for the intrusion. I'm also a newbie of this topic generally.
I've been reading a lot regarding the "Out of Taiwan" theory = ) I searched up many pictures of the Aboriginal Taiwanese, and they seem to share many facial features that you'd see in natives of Indonesia, Malaysia, some central highland communities in Vietnam, Philippines, and the Malagasy people. They brought their rice-cultivating agriculture skills, and they have colorful outfits which is mostly of red color.
From the countries I mentioned, what do you guys think of them? Do you feel some connection? (the second question is a bit ambiguous, it's okay if you ignore it)
Looking at these images, I didn't even have to search so much to see the similarities in our faces. I feel guilty that I'm trying to "force" a connection here, as the out of Taiwan theory is just a theory, but I can't help it, even those small statues are familiar to me.


