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AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Austronesian language mean?
• AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE (noun)
The noun AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:
1. the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
Familiarity information: AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Austronesian; Austronesian language
Hypernyms ("Austronesian language" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Austronesian language"):
Malayo-Polynesian; Polynesian (the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific)
Aboriginal Australian; Australian (the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines)
Formosan (the Austronesian languages spoken on Formosa)
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