Austronesian

This page covers the Austronesian languages, included in Section 2.2.3.5 of Ross (2021). See also the Trans–New Guinea languages, which may have borrowed Austronesian conjunctions that then grammaticalized as switch-reference markers.

Languages

• Formosan (Taiwan)
• Oceanic
• New Guinea region
• South Vanuatu
• New Caledonia
• (Polynesian)
• Other Oceanic languages

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