Mainland Chinese scholars are increasingly challenging the Out-of-Taiwan theory for aboriginal peoples whose ancestors crossed the ocean and settled thousands of miles. This comes as Beijing and Taipe ...

Mainland Chinese academics are countering the hypothesis that the island was the ancestral homeland of the Austronesian ...

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Discover the countries with the most 'living languages' – at number one is a nation that speaks more than 800 different ...

Before that, Taiwan was home to Indigenous Austronesian peoples. Over time, some sailed away, settling in other parts of Southeast Asia or even as far away as Madagascar, New Zealand and Hawaii.

Digitised comparative word list in Modigliani's "L'isola delle donne" from 1894. The word list captures forms in Nias, Batak-Toba, Enggano, and Malay, with Italian ...

Digitised comparative word list in Modigliani's "L'isola delle donne" from 1894. The word list captures forms in Nias, Batak-Toba, Enggano, and Malay, with Italian ...

Some speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka, and there are indigenous languages or Formosan languages, which are part of the Austronesian language family. An estimated 4,000+ Taiwanese-Americans live ...

“Our findings suggest that the Papuan and Austronesian migrations were so extensive that they have largely overwritten the ancestry of the first migrants, making the recovery of these ancient ...