Austronesian migration
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| Total population | |
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| c. 400 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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| Languages | |
| Austronesian languages | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Balinese Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Folk religion, Hinduism, Indigenous religion, Islam, Shamanism |
The Austronesian people are various groups in Southeast Asia, Oceania and East Africa that speak languages stemming from the Austronesian family. They include Taiwanese aborigines; the majority of ethnic groups in the Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Madagascar, Micronesia, and Polynesia, as well as the Malay people of Singapore, the Polynesian peoples of New Zealand and Hawaii, and the non-Papuan people of Melanesia. All of these people can be connected to the Austronesian language family group. They are also found in the regions of the Southern Thailand, the Cham areas in Vietnam and Cambodia, and the Hainan region of China, parts of Sri Lanka, southern Myanmar, southern tip of South Africa, Suriname and some of the Andaman Islands. On top of that, Austronesian diaspora also can be found in the United States of America, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, as well as West Asian countries. The people of the Maldives also possess traces of Austronesian genes via gene flow from the Malay Archipelago. The territories populated by Austronesian-speaking peoples are known collectively as Austronesia.
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