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Short answer: The maritime spread of the Austronesian speaking people across the oceans.

Austronesian is the overarching term for the languages and peoples that cover insular Aouth East Asia, the Pacific and even Madagascar.

The largest subgroups being the languages of the Phillipines and Malay in Malaysia and Indonesia.

The languages and peoples all show relation from far of madagascar across Indonesia to Easter Island in the Pacific indicating a common origin in the past.

The unique identifier of the Austronesian Expansion is that their migration has predominantly been across the sea with them settling far of corners of both the Indian Ocean and the Pacific making them the earliest trully marine culture known off.