The Austronesian/Malayo-Polynesian Language PDF

The Autronesian/Malayo- Polynesian Language (Linguistic Classification) The Austronesian language family has about 1,200 members, which together are spoken by some 270 million people. It is arguably the largest existing language family in terms of the number of its member languages (making...

The Autronesian/Malayo- Polynesian Language (Linguistic Classification) The Austronesian language family has about 1,200 members, which together are spoken by some 270 million people. It is arguably the largest existing language family in terms of the number of its member languages (making up for 20% of the world’s languages) and it is second in terms of its geographic spread (after the Indo-European language family). Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto- Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify c. 4000 BCE – c. 3500 BCE in Taiwan. a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan. In terms of the number of its languages and of their geographic spread, the Austronesian language family is among the world’s largest. the three mechanisms that we use to produce speech are:  respiration at the lungs,  Phonation (vibration) at the larynx  articulation in the mouth. lateral, in phonetics, a consonant sound produced by raising the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth so that the airstream flows past one or both sides of the tongue. a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator. Standard Spanish ⟨rr⟩ as in perro, for example, is an alveolar trill. A trill is made by the articulator being held in place and the airstream causing it to vibrate. approximant, in phonetics, a sound that is produced by bringing one articulator in the vocal tract close to another without, however, causing audible friction (see fricative). Approximants include semivowels, such as the y sound in “yes” or the w sound in “war.” Blust, R. A. (1998, October 19). Austronesian languages | Origin, History, Language Map, & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Austronesian-languages