Maps of Austronesian
Australia: Austric Dispersal (Li)
Austric Dispersal
Source:
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
Data Source: Paul Jen-kuei Li. 2001. The Dispersal of the Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan. Language and Linguistics 2.1:271-278
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Map Description:
This map illustrates the dispersal of Austronesians through China along the Yangtze Jiang River and down the east coast of China between 10,000 and 6,000 BP. Austroasiatic dispersal branches off into three directions: west, south, and southeast.
The encircled numbers denote progressively later stages in the dispersal.
Data Source: Paul Jen-kuei Li. 2001. The Dispersal of the Formosan Aborigines in Taiwan. Language and Linguistics 2.1:271-278
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Copyright protected.
Map Description:
This map illustrates the dispersal of Austronesians through China along the Yangtze Jiang River and down the east coast of China between 10,000 and 6,000 BP. Austroasiatic dispersal branches off into three directions: west, south, and southeast.
The encircled numbers denote progressively later stages in the dispersal.
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Indonesia: Geographic Spread of the Sama-Bajau languages (Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar)
Geographic Spread of the Sama-Bajau Languages
Source:
Adelaar, Alexander and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P (eds.). 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 457. New York: Routledge.
Date Created: 1957
Map Description:
Sama-Bajau speakers comprise what is arguably the most widely dispersed ethnolinguistic group indigenous to insular Southeast Asia. It is estimated that there are between 750 000 and 900 000 speakers of Sama-Bajau in Southeast Asia. Although a comprehensive survey has never been conducted in Indonesia it is estimated that Sama-Bajau speakers number between 150 000 and 230 000.
Sea-nomadic and much more numerous strand and settled Sama speakers live scattered, and in most areas interspersed with one another, over a vast maritime zone 3.25 million square kilometers in extent, stretching from eastern Palawan, Samar, and coastal Mindanao in the north, through the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines, to the northern and eastern coasts of Borneo, southward through the Straits of Makassar to Sulawesi, and from there over widely dispersed areas of eastern Indonesia (Sather 1997: 2).
Date Created: 1957
Map Description:
Sama-Bajau speakers comprise what is arguably the most widely dispersed ethnolinguistic group indigenous to insular Southeast Asia. It is estimated that there are between 750 000 and 900 000 speakers of Sama-Bajau in Southeast Asia. Although a comprehensive survey has never been conducted in Indonesia it is estimated that Sama-Bajau speakers number between 150 000 and 230 000.
Sea-nomadic and much more numerous strand and settled Sama speakers live scattered, and in most areas interspersed with one another, over a vast maritime zone 3.25 million square kilometers in extent, stretching from eastern Palawan, Samar, and coastal Mindanao in the north, through the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines, to the northern and eastern coasts of Borneo, southward through the Straits of Makassar to Sulawesi, and from there over widely dispersed areas of eastern Indonesia (Sather 1997: 2).
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Madagascar: Merina (Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar)
The Merina Dialect of Malagasy
Source: Adelaar, Alexander and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P (eds.). 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 457. New York: Routledge.
Date Created: 1957
Map Description:
This map displays the Merina dialect of Malagasy, spoken in the highland areas of Madagascar.
Date Created: 1957
Map Description:
This map displays the Merina dialect of Malagasy, spoken in the highland areas of Madagascar.
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