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 Translation for 'Austronesian' from English to Slovak
ADJ   Austronesian | more Austronesian | most Austronesian
NOUN   an Austronesian | Austronesians
SYNO Austronesian | Austronesian language
etn.jazyk.
austronézsky {adj}
Austronesian
jazyk.
austronézske jazyky {pl}
Austronesian languages
jazyk.veda
austronezistika {f}
Austronesian studies {pl}
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Usage Examples English
  • Juliette Blevins has suggested that the Ongan languages are the sister branch to the Austronesian languages in an Austronesian-Ongan family because of sound correspondences between protolanguages.
  • His magnum opus "Vergleichende Lautlehre des austronesischen Wortschatzes" (Comparative phonology of Austronesian vocabularies) (1934–1937) was the first systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of the Proto-Austronesian sound system and vocabulary.
  • A vast maritime trade network connected the distant Austronesian settlements in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
  • Despite this, the Aeta, like other modern Philippine Negrito groups, have significant Austronesian admixture (~10% to 30%) due to population mixing after Austronesian contact.
  • Lashed-lug techniques are distinctively Austronesian and are different enough from the shipbuilding techniques of South Asia, the Middle East, and China, that they can be used to readily identify ships as being Austronesian.

  • Sagart is known for his proposal of the Sino-Austronesian language family.
  • Austronesian speakers came to Indonesian archipelago circa 4,000 years ago.
  • The status of the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages were once thought to be non-Austronesian, but further research found them to be divergent Austronesian languages.
  • See also "Proto-Austronesian language" for a list of Proto-Austronesian verbal affixes.
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