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Austronesian languages(encyclopedia)

Austronesian (iou)



Austronesian adjective & noun. E20.
[from German austronesisch, from Latin australis southern + -O- + Greek nesos island: see -IAN.]
(Of or pertaining to) a family of agglutinative languages spoken widely in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of SE Asia, and in the islands of the central and southern Pacific.