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The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia Madagascar and the Pacific with a few members on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European Niger–Congo Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families. Otto Dempwolff a German scholar was the first researcher to extensively explore Austronesian using the comparative method.
