List of major and official Austronesian languages

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.

Major languages

Languages with at least 4 million native speakers

• Javanese (76 million)
• Filipino / Tagalog (47 million native, ~90 million total)
• Malay / Indonesian, (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

• Carolinian (5,700, Northern Mariana Islands)
• Chamorro (60,000, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands)
• Fijian (350,000 native, 550,000 total, Fiji)
• Filipino (47 million native, ~90 million total, Philippines)
• Gilbertese (100,000, Kiribati)
• Hawaiian (1,000 native, 8,000 competent, Hawaii)
• Malay / Indonesian, (45 million native, ~250 million total, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore)
• Malagasy (17 million, Madagascar)
• Māori (100,000, New Zealand)
• Marshallese (> 44,000, Marshall Islands)
• Nauruan (6,000, Nauru)
• Niuean (8,000, Niue)
• Palauan (15,000, Palau)
• Rapa Nui (5,000, Easter Island)
• Samoan (370,000, Samoa, American Samoa)
• Sonsorolese (600, Sonsorol, Palau)
• Tahitian (120,000, French Polynesia)
• Tetum (800,000 speakers, East Timor)
• Tobian (100, Hatohobei, Palau)
• Tongan (108,000, Tonga)
• Tuvaluan (13,000, Tuvalu)

Dialects and Creoles

Dialects of major languages

• Banyumas Javanese (1,000,000 native, Indonesia)
• Batak Karo language (600,000 native, Indonesia)
• Betawi language, (3,000,000 native, Indonesia)
• Sri Lanka Malay (50,000, Sri Lanka)

See also

• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association