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Language code: map

Technical information about ISO 639 language code map

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The table below provides technical details for the Austronesian languages language, designated by the map code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

map

Name

Austronesian languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
MalayTagalogJavaneseMaoriMalagasy
Key facts
Austronesian is one of the world’s largest language families by geographic spread, stretching from Madagascar to Easter IslandIt contains more than 1,200 distinct languagesProto-Austronesian is reconstructed to have originated on Taiwan about 5,000–6,000 years agoThe family includes both some of the world’s most spoken languages (Malay, Javanese) and many endangered ones spoken by fewer than 1,000 peopleReduplication (repeating a word or part) is a common grammatical feature across many Austronesian languages.
Sample phrase

Halo, apa kabar?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Austronesian languages language, identified by the code map, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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