List of major and official Austronesian languages
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This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar.
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[edit] Major languages
- Languages with at least 4 million native speakers
- Javanese (76 million)
- Filipino/Tagalog (47 million native, ~90 million total [1][2][3])
- Indonesian/Malay, (45 million native, ~250 million total)
- Sundanese (27 million)
- Cebuano (19 million native, ~30 million total)
- Malagasy (17 million)
- Madurese (14 million)
- Ilokano (8 million native, ~10 million total)
- Hiligaynon (7 million native, ~11 million total)
- Minangkabau (7 million)
- Batak (7 million, all dialects)
- Bikol (4.6 million, all dialects)
- Banjar (4.5 million)
- Balinese (4 million)
- Official languages
- Filipino/Tagalog (47 million native, ~90 million total, Philippines)
- Indonesian/Malay, (45 million native, ~250 million total, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore)
- Malagasy (17 million, Madagascar)
- Tetum (800,000 speakers, East Timor)
- Fijian (350,000 native, 550,000 total, Fiji)
- Samoan (370,000, Samoa, American Samoa)
- Tahitian (120,000, French Polynesia)
- Tongan (108,000, Tonga)
- Gilbertese (100,000, Kiribati)
- Māori (100,000, New Zealand)
- Chamorro (60,000, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands)
- Marshallese (> 44,000, Marshall Islands)
- Tuvaluan (13,000, Tuvalu)
- Niuean (8,000, Niue)
- Nauruan (6,000, Nauru)
- Carolinian (5,700, Northern Mariana Islands)
- Rapa Nui (5,000, Easter Island)
- Hawaiian (1000 native, 8000 competent, Hawaii)
[edit] Dialects and Creoles
- Dialects of major languages.
- Banyumas Javanese (1,000,000 native, Indonesia)
- Batak Karo language (600,000 native, Indonesia)
- Sri Lanka Malay (50000 , Sri Lanka)
