Spriggs, Matthew and Geraghty, Paul and Liu, Yue-Chen (2025) Austronesian archaeolinguistics. In: The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 466-492. ISBN 9780192868350
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The Austronesian language family is the second largest in the world in terms of the number of languages, people who speak the languages, and geographic spread. Evidence from linguistics, archaeology, and genetics indicates the Austronesian dispersal began around 5,000 years ago when Taiwan was settled by Neolithic farmers from southeast China. Over the next four thousand years, Austronesian speakers spread to most of the rest of the geographic area where they live today. In this chapter, recent research advances in archaeology, linguistics, and genetics are summarized to provide an overview of the consensus and the controversy on Austronesian history. The current distribution area of the Austronesian speakers can be divided into several regions, including the Philippines, Island and Mainland Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, each discussed in turn. Questions that need further interdisciplinary investigation are pointed to in the concluding section.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE) |
| Depositing User: | Ms Shalni Sanjana |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2025 23:12 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2025 23:12 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/15120 |
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