With its wealth of artifacts shining a light on the long history of the Austronesian language family, the new Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province has garnered widespread ...

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading out ...

New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago. New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in ...

A Taiwanese aboriginal tribe performs a traditional dance at the inauguration of the Preparatory Office of Austronesian Forum, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2018, Taiwan restored the ...

From Madagascar to Easter Island, Austronesian tongues traveled far and wide with early seafarers. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link ...

Imagine the wealth of knowledge we could uncover if it was possible to travel back in time and re-construct ancient languages. While that’s impossible right now, scientists at UC Berkley and the ...

Biodiversity scientists are using a language tree to help guide efforts to preserve threatened languages, outlines a new report. One of the world's 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half ...

The area collectively known as Austronesia covers half the globe. It stretches from South-East Asia and Taiwan, across New Guinea and New Zealand, to the hundreds of small islands dotted around the ...

When it comes to working out the relationships between ancient languages, grammar is more enlightening than vocabulary, scientists say. There are some 300 language families in the world today.