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 ...

The Philippines, with its rich and diverse history, is often the subject of intriguing questions about its origins. One such question that has captivated historians and enthusiasts alike is whether ...

Scientists all agree that people speaking Austronesian languages started out from Taiwan and settled the Philippines around 4,000 years ago. They used sails as early as 2,000 years ago.

Today, the descendants of the Austronesian peoples are found in dominant numbers in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor and in most Pacific islands.

Both Palau and Guam appear to have been first settled by Austronesian people from what is now the Philippines, between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago.

TAITUNG, June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Taitung County Government invited the Palauan-led multinational crew of the traditional sailing canoe Alingano Maisu, which brought together sailors from ...

Waruno Mahdi, Some Austronesian Maverick Protoforms with Culture-Historical Implications: II, Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Dec., 1994), pp. 431-490 ...

Manuscript Open access Published: 27 May 2009 Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages Philippe Blanchard , Filippo Petroni, Maurizio Serva & Dimitri Volchenkov Nature ...