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AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
Synonyms:
Austronesian; Austronesian language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
