(They're the ones who came from the
Austronesia race.
No doubt, there are plenty of societies in
Austronesia with special terms for mental faculties, such as Cebuano Visayan alimpatakan, glossed by Wolff (1972) as "n 1 the mind as the seat of thinking processes.
Hispanisation; the impact of Spanish on the lexicon and grammar of the indigenous languages of
Austronesia and the Americas.
Population expansion in the western Pacific (
Austronesia): a wave of advance model.
While this volume concentrates on Australia, it also benefits from a section in which scholars present the results of similar work on the Asian mainland, in the Americas,
Austronesia and the wider world.
Two additional families, Australian and Indo-Pacific (or Papuan), are older than
Austronesia and include the languages spoken on the Australian continent, in New Guinea and the other islands of Melanesia.
The conceptual divide is manifested in the confusing nature of outsiders' reports about Southeast Asian or Pacific concepts of spirits and souls." In fact, problems of understanding, terminology and methodology in religious studies in
Austronesia were identified by many writers, but only a few ever presented alternative solutions (e.g.
Taiwan's aboriginal peoples, who originated in
Austronesia and southern Asia, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years.
Wickler (2001: 189) has cautiously used palaeoenvironmental data suggesting colonisation of the Marianas at 4800 BP and Palau at 4500 BP to posit a "rapid, long distance "star burst" dispersal of
Austronesia horticulturalists into western Micronesia from island Southeast Asia ...', a pattern described as similar to the dispersal of the Lapita cultural complex.
2010 Endangered Languages of
Austronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sahlins (1985 & 1991) on Fiji and Valeri (1985) on Hawaii; other scholars of
Austronesia have argued against it (see e.g.
HGA aims to establish a forum for those engaged with
Austronesia (i.e., Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Oceania) in the Hamburg area, scholars and students as well as trade and industry, or the interested public.
