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 roughly 180 languages spoken in the Philippines belong to the Austronesian family of languages. This large family of languages is spoken in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and the Pacific, as well as in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock/weniliou The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the ...

Phylogenetic methods of evolutionary biology can be used to study socio-political variation mapped onto linguistic trees. The range of political complexities in Austronesian societies offers a good ...

In focusing efforts to promote its indigenous peoples and culture, Taiwan is making a political gambit in the Pacific as well. A Taiwanese aboriginal tribe performs a traditional dance at the ...

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 ...