Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
The dispersal that would ultimately span from Madagascar to Rapa Nui begins with movement from Taiwan into the northern Philippines, conventionally placed around the third millennium BCE on the archaeological evidence of Neolithic settlement, pottery and domesticates. Everything spoken beyond Taiwan today descends from this single departure: the Malayo-Polynesian branch. The catalogue timeline for this Journey gives the same approximate date.
Uncertain — sources disagree, or the dating is contested. Stated here, not resolved.
Subjects
- The Austronesian expansion · phenomenon · Island Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific · not located
- Taiwan · region · Taiwan
- Austronesian · concept · Taiwan, island Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Oceania · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent. This is the standing of the weakest source, not an average.
Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative linguistics
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.
in Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei · 1999 · Partly verified
Blust, R., "Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative linguistics", in Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (Taipei, 1999)
Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion
Supports the agreement between the branching order of Austronesian language trees and the archaeological settlement sequence of the Pacific. 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. The volume number is given from standing knowledge and the page range is omitted rather than guessed.
Nature · 2000 · Partly verified
Gray, R. D. and Jordan, F. M., Nature, vol. 405 (2000)
Recorded on The Austronesian expansion
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