The Austronesian Languages - Brian Loo Soon Hua | PG 2018

0:00 Introduction
5:02 The spread of Polynesian languages
8:35 The various branches
9:33 Numbers 1-10 compared
10:27 Indonesian-Malay grammar
13:58 Other facts about Indonesian-Malay
15:44 The Tagalog language and Austronesian word order
16:35 Phillipine/Austronesian voice system
19:53 Malagasy - the Austronesian language of Madagascar
21:08 Samoan
22:22 Guess the language game
23:19 The Austronesian languages of the Andaman Sea

QUESTIONS
25:04 Q1. Possible Austronesian substrate in Japanese.
26:08 Q2. What is the difference between Tagalog and Filipino?
26:40 Q3. Is Malay related to Thai?
27:38 Q4. How mutually intelligible are the Austronesian languages?
28:07 Q5. Is Austronesian related to Papua New Guinea's languages?
28:35 Q6. Compare the outside influences on Malay and Indonesian.
29:10 Q7. The writing systems.
29:47 Q8. Is it typical for Austronesian languages to be mostly vowel sounds?
31:35 Q9. Do the Austronesian languages still survive on their Taiwan homeland?



This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava 2018 ( https://www.polyglotbratislava.com/ ).