Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan

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1. Story
2. Robert Blust's comparative work on Austronesian subgrouping established that almost all of the family's primary branches are Formosan — spoken on Taiwan by a small minority of the family's speakers — while the thousand or more languages from Madagascar to Rapa Nui descend from a single primary branch, Malayo-Polynesian. Because genealogical diversity accumulates where a lineage has been longest, that structure identifies Taiwan as the homeland, on evidence internal to the languages and independent of any archaeology.
3. Knowledge
4. Austronesian
5. Taiwan
6. The Austronesian expansion
7. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
8. Connections
9. Austronesian
10. Taiwan
11. The Austronesian expansion
12. Taiwan
13. Trans-New Guinea
14. Malagasy
15. The Austronesian expansion
16. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
17. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
18. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
19. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
20. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
21. The Luzon Strait
22. Austronesian
23. The Austronesian expansion
24. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
25. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
26. The AI accelerator
27. Malagasy
28. Austronesian
29. Taiwan
30. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
31. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
32. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
33. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
34. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
35. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
36. Evidence
37. Supports the finding that nearly all primary branches of Austronesian are Formosan and that all extra-Formosan languages form a single branch, Malayo-Polynesian. 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. Cited without pagination, and the specific number of primary branches Blust proposes is deliberately not quoted in this pack because it could not be checked.