Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar

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1. Story
2. Speakers of an Austronesian language reached Madagascar from island Southeast Asia, crossing or skirting the Indian Ocean, and their language became Malagasy. The dating is contested and the route is not established: proposals range across direct open-ocean voyaging and passage along the Indian Ocean rim, and estimates of the settlement date differ by several centuries. What is not in dispute is the origin, which the language establishes independently of any archaeological evidence.
3. Knowledge
4. Malagasy
5. The Austronesian expansion
6. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
7. Connections
8. Malagasy
9. The Austronesian expansion
10. The Austronesian expansion
11. Austronesian
12. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
13. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
14. Malagasy
15. Austronesian
16. Taiwan
17. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
18. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
19. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
20. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
21. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
22. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
23. Evidence
24. Supports the identification of Ma'anyan, a Barito language of southeastern Borneo, as the closest known relative of Malagasy. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. No page is cited and no correspondence set is quoted; the settlement date of Madagascar is not supported by this record and is stated as contested wherever it appears.