Austronesian peoples are a population in Oceania and Southeast Asia that speak languages of the Austronesian languages family. Austronesian peoples include: Taiwanese aborigines; the majority ethnic groups of East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Madagascar, Micronesia, and Polynesia, as well as the Polynesian peoples of New Zealand and Hawaii, and the Austronesian peoples of Melanesia. They are also found in the Pattani regio...
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Austronesian people
Ethnicity
Includes group(s):
- Javanese
- Sundanese
- Balinese people
- Acehnese people
- Ilonggos
- Ilocano people
- Tagalog people
- Bugis
- Madurese
- Malay people
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Languages spoken:
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