With its wealth of artifacts shining a light on the long history of the Austronesian language family, the new Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province has garnered widespread ...

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading out ...

In focusing efforts to promote its indigenous peoples and culture, Taiwan is making a political gambit in the Pacific as well. A Taiwanese aboriginal tribe performs a traditional dance at the ...

Imagine the wealth of knowledge we could uncover if it was possible to travel back in time and re-construct ancient languages. While that’s impossible right now, scientists at UC Berkley and the ...

Biodiversity scientists are using a language tree to help guide efforts to preserve threatened languages, outlines a new report. One of the world's 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half ...

The area collectively known as Austronesia covers half the globe. It stretches from South-East Asia and Taiwan, across New Guinea and New Zealand, to the hundreds of small islands dotted around the ...

When it comes to working out the relationships between ancient languages, grammar is more enlightening than vocabulary, scientists say. There are some 300 language families in the world today.