Austronesian language

Austronesian language
noun
the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
Syn: ↑Austronesian
Derivationally related forms: ↑Austronesian (for: ↑Austronesian)
Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue

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