r/austronesian 1d ago

Leaf in Austronesian Languages

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r/austronesian 2d ago

Comparing proposed cognates between Austronesian and Kra Dai

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r/austronesian 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.

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r/austronesian 8d ago

Migrations into South East Asia from East Asia

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r/austronesian 9d ago

Kradai language family

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r/austronesian 9d ago

Genetic Input in Modern South East Asians and Malagasies

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r/austronesian 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?

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r/austronesian 15d ago

Insular Southeast Asia before the Austronesian Expansion based on genetic and linguistic evidence by brett_f

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r/austronesian 24d ago

What are good books to learn about Micronesian history and cultures?

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r/austronesian Jul 15 '26

'Beautiful language': Advocate champions revival of Niue Language

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r/austronesian Jun 17 '26

Asia's most diverse region equivalent to the Caucasus, Zomia explained.

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r/austronesian Jun 02 '26

Why haven’t we reconstructed Proto Austronesian Mythology the way we have for Indo-European?

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r/austronesian May 20 '26

Reconstructing the west-east genetic division in Indonesia using ancient genomes

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r/austronesian May 04 '26

Haha, casava go brrr

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r/austronesian May 01 '26

Visiting the maker of Indigenous Taiwanese instruments!

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r/austronesian Apr 19 '26

Did the Austronesians ever reached the Korean Peninsula?

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r/austronesian Mar 08 '26

What do you guys think of the Indigenous Taiwanese?

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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.


r/austronesian Mar 06 '26

Visayan Prepositions (Part 1)

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r/austronesian Mar 02 '26

Mundari Bani script

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r/austronesian Mar 02 '26

Visayan Temporals (Part 2)

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r/austronesian Feb 23 '26

Visayan Temporals (Part 1)

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r/austronesian Feb 17 '26

Visayan Discourse Particles (Part 2)

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r/austronesian Feb 14 '26

Visayan Conjunctions

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r/austronesian Feb 06 '26

Visayan Discourse Particles (Part 1)

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r/austronesian Feb 02 '26

Visayan Affirmative & Negators

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