It's estimated around 400 million people are considered to be descendants of the early Austronesian tribes. Until now, it has been widely believed that Austronesians originated in present-day ...

During the Japanese period, scholars collected and interpreted the tales about Negrito people through field research among the Austronesian tribes - a total of 25 of these legends in Taiwan were ...

THE roughly 180 languages spoken in the Philippines belong to the Austronesian family of languages. This large family of languages is spoken in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and the Pacific, as well as in ...

Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...

In Taiwan, there have been stories passed down through the generations about an ancient tribe of short ... dark people’ legends in Formosan Austronesian tribes and brings insights into the ...

“Each tribe that we went to ... Students danced hula on stage at the Austronesian Joint Harvest Festival in Hualien County, Taiwan. It was a performance to remember in front of an estimated ...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN / ACCESSWIRE / November 12, 2024 / The 2024 Austronesian Languages Revitalization Forum, organized by Taiwan's Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation (ILRDF ...

The latest salvo in the debate over the “Out of Taiwan” hypothesis came last month from a mainland academic who said the origins of the Austronesian peoples were in the mainland’s southeast ...

In 2021, Kamehameha Schools ratified a partnership with members of the Kaviyangan Paiwan Tribe, honoring Hawaii and Taiwan’s Austronesian language and Pacific voyaging ties. “There’s a ...