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Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300
languages, 20% of the world's total, are spoken by 270 million
people in a region that extends from Easter Island in the Pacific
10,000 miles west to Madagascar off the coast of Africa. Many of
the languages in this diverse and linguistically rich region are
undocumented and in imminent danger of extinction. This book
provides a critical account of current knowledge, reviews the state
of the documentation of languages in the region, and considers the
linguistic effects of government policies and economic change. The
editor's introduction draws out the key issues and themes. An
overview of the Austronesian language family then examines the
historical relations between the languages, their diversity, and
their distribution in the region and describes the nature and aims
of contemporary research. Individual chapters are then devoted to
the revitalization of languages in Taiwan, the Philippines,
Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, and Vanuatu.
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