The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Hawaiian, Rapanui, and Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar) are the geographic outliers of the Austronesian family. Austronesian has several primary branches, all but one of which are found exclusively on Formosa (mainland Taiwan: the Formosan languages, which are unrelated to Chinese). All Austronesian languages spoken outside Formosa, including the offshore Yami language of Taiwan, belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch, sometimes called Extra-Formosan.
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Central
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Amis, Nataoran;
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Northern
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Basay, Kavalan
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Southwest
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Siraya
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Paiwanic
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Papora-Hoanya, Kulon-Pazeh
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Bali-Sasak
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Bali, Sasak, Sumbawa
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Central Western Plains
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Babuza, Thao
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