The Exploring Ancestors of Austronesian Languages

Relevant experts said that cultural exchanges and ethnic migration in the Taiwan Strait during the Neolithic period are important for studying the development of prehistoric navigation on the southeastern coast, the origin of the South Island people in Fujian and Taipei, and the prehistoric culture of the "Austronesian language group" subject. Since the 1930s, this topic has attracted the attention of many scholars in the fields of archeology, anthropology, and linguistics in the Pacific region.

The geographical category of "Austronesian" is distributed in hundreds of island countries from the South Pacific to the Indian Ocean, including more than 1,000 to 1,200 languages. Its distribution area extends from Easter Island in the eastern Pacific to Easter Island in the east and across the Indian Ocean in the west. Madagascar stretches from Taiwan Island in the north to New Zealand in the south. The main living areas include Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. There are approximately 270 million people speaking Austronesian languages.

Where are the ancestors of these island countries from? How did they cross the rough seas and scatter to islands in two oceans during the Paleolithic Age when sea transportation was extremely underdeveloped? In fact, it is wrong to generally classify Austronesian people as one origin. Austronesian people are only a comparative linguistic division, not a racial division.

Austronesian people alone can be divided into Malays, Australians, Polynesians, dwarfs, etc.

The Malay race originated from the fusion of immigrants from Java and South Asia. In the later period, the brown Malay race continued to immigrate to Fujian, forming one of the earliest indigenous people in Fujian and another in Fujian. The large indigenous group is a branch of the Khmer people of South Asia.