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Austronesian
Ethnicity	Austronesian peoples
Geographic distribution	Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Hainan (China), and Oceania
Linguistic classification	One of the world's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Austronesian
Subdivisions	Atayalic Bunun East Formosan Malayo-Polynesian Western Plains Northwest Formosan Paiwan Puyuma Rukai Tsouic
ISO 639-2 / 5	map
Glottolog	aust1307
ELP	Template:Endangered Languages Project
The historical distribution of Austronesian languages

Austronesian bhasa, ek bhasa ke palwaar hae jiske Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Pacific Ocean aur Taiwan ke aadiwaasi log baat kare hae.^[1] Ii bhasa ke palwaar me 328 million log baat kare hae, jon dunia ke abaadi ke 4.4% hae.^[2][3] Ii dunia ke paanchwa sab se barraa bhasa ke palwaar hae. Kuchh khaas Austronesian bhasa hae Malay bhasa, jisme Indonesian bhasa^[4] bhi hae, Javanese bhasa, Sundanese bhasa, Tagalog bhasa^[5], Malagasy bhasa, aur Cebuano bhasa. II bhasa ke palwaar me 1,257 bhasa hae, jon bhasa ke palwaar me duusra sab se jaada hae.^[6]

1. ↑ Blust, Robert Andrew. "Austronesian Languages". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
2. ↑ "Statistical Summaries; Ethnologue".
3. ↑ "Austronesian; Ethnologue".
4. ↑ Sneddon, James Neil (2004). The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society. UNSW Press. p. 14.)
5. ↑ Gonzalez, Andrew B. (1980). Language and Nationalism: The Philippine Experience Thus Far. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9711130009.
6. ↑ Robert Blust (2016). History of the Austronesian Languages. University of Hawaii at Manoa.