Biodiversity scientists are using a language tree to help guide efforts to preserve threatened languages, outlines a new report.

Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the ...

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 ...

This tree gives the basic sequence in which the Austronesian languages developed, and therefore the order in which the different islands and landmasses were colonised.

One advantage of the Austronesian expansion for scholars is that the Austronesian language tree is densely filled out, with 1,200 extant languages, and without the language extinctions that ...

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading ...

Proto-languages are linguistic ancestors which gave rise to modern languages. These forbears include Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Afroasiatic and Proto-Austronesian.

This paper presents a new higher phylogeny for the Austronesian family, based on three independent lines of evidence: the observation of a hierarchy of implications among the numerals from 5 to 10 in ...

Erratum Published: 08 February 2001 Correction: Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion Russell D. Gray & Fiona M. Jordan Nature 409, 743 (2001) Cite this article ...