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.

Contents 1 Major languages 2 Dialects and Creoles 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Major languages

Languages with at least 4 million native speakers

• Javanese (76 million)
• Filipino/Tagalog (47 million native, ~90 million total ^[1][2][3])
• Indonesian/Malay, (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

• Filipino/Tagalog (47 million native, ~90 million total, Philippines)
• Indonesian/Malay, (45 million native, ~250 million total, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore)
• Malagasy (17 million, Madagascar)
• Tetum (800,000 speakers, East Timor)
• Fijian (350,000 native, 550,000 total, Fiji)
• Samoan (370,000, Samoa, American Samoa)
• Tahitian (120,000, French Polynesia)
• Tongan (108,000, Tonga)
• Gilbertese (100,000, Kiribati)
• Māori (100,000, New Zealand)
• Chamorro (60,000, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands)
• Marshallese (> 44,000, Marshall Islands)
• Tuvaluan (13,000, Tuvalu)
• Niuean (8,000, Niue)
• Nauruan (6,000, Nauru)
• Carolinian (5,700, Northern Mariana Islands)
• Rapa Nui (5,000, Easter Island)
• Hawaiian (1000 native, 8000 competent, Hawaii)

[edit] Dialects and Creoles

Dialects of major languages.

• Banyumas Javanese (1,000,000 native, Indonesia)
• Batak Karo language (600,000 native, Indonesia)
• Sri Lanka Malay (50000 , Sri Lanka)

[edit] See also

• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

[edit] References