English yami is an Yami; The meaning of Yami.

Yami language belongs to austronesian family. Austronesian family is the only language family mainly distributed on islands in the world, including more than 1,211 languages. Its distribution reaches Easter Island in the west of South America in the east and Madagascar Island off the coast of East Africa in the west.

As far south as New Zealand (the languages that do not include Australia, but also those that speak Australian aborigines should also belong to this language family), Taiwan Province is the northernmost part of this language family. Its east-west distance is more than half of the earth's circumference. It is said that the total population of this language family is about 251 million, and most of them live in Southeast Asia. As for the east of New Guinea, there are only over one million people.

Austronesian family is also called Malay-Polynesian language family. It is distributed from Madagascar Island in southeast Africa in the west, Easter Island in Chile in the east, Taiwan Province and Hawaiian Islands in the north and New Zealand Island in the south.

in p>1716, H. Lerant, a Dutchman, discovered the kinship of languages in South Island. In 1836, German W.F. Humboldt used the term Malay-Polynesian to speak this language family.

at the end of the 9th century, German W. Schmidt (1868 ~ 1954) named them Austronesian. Generally speaking, it is divided into four language families: Indonesia, Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.

This language family is mainly composed of the languages of the islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Indo-China Peninsula at the southeast end of the Asian continent and some islands in the Indian Ocean. The number of languages, some people think that there are more than 311, some people think that as many as 511. The population of Austronesian languages is about 251 million.

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austronesian family is divided into four language families:

1. Indonesian language families are distributed in Taiwan Province (the indigenous language of Taiwan Province), the Philippines (Tagalog, Pisayan, etc.), Indo-China Peninsula (Chinglish, Malay, etc.), Nanyang Islands (Indonesian, Javanese, etc.) and Madagascar (Madagascar).

2. Micronesian languages are distributed in Mariana and Guam, east of the Philippines and north of the equator. Caroline, Botswana, Marshall, Nauru, Gilbert and other places.

3. Melanesian languages are distributed in New Guinea, Bismarck, Solomon, Santa Cruz, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji and other places to the east of Indonesia and south of the equator.

4. Polynesian language families are distributed in a wide area east of the above two language families, including Midway Island and Hawaii to the north of the equator and to the right of the international international date line.

south of the equator and on both sides of the international international date line, there are more than 111 languages and dialects in Phoenix, Tokelau, Samoa, French Polynesia, Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, Tonga and New Zealand.

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