AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)