Austronesian
adjective
Aus·tro·ne·sian
ˌȯ-strə-ˈnē-zhən
ˌä-,
-shən
: of, relating to, or constituting a family of languages spoken in the area extending from Madagascar eastward through the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Hawaii and Easter Island and including practically all the native languages of the Pacific islands with the exception of the Australian and Papuan languages
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