Austronesian

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Austronesian /ˌɒstrə(ʊ)ˈniːzɪən, -ʒ(ə)n, ˌɔː-/

▶adjective relating to or denoting a family of languages spoken in an area extending from Madagascar in the west to the Pacific islands in the east. ▶noun the Austronesian family of languages.

– origin from Ger. austronesisch, based on L. australis (see austral) + Gk nēsos ‘island’.

'Austronesian' also found in these Oxford entries:

Cham - Chamorro - Dayak - Fijian - Hawaiian - Iban - Indonesian - Indo-Pacific - Malagasy - Malay - Malayo-Polynesian - Micronesian - Negrito - Polynesian - Tagalog - Tuvaluan

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