Austronesian language
C967
concept
An Austronesian language is any member of a large family of languages spoken from Madagascar across Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific to Easter Island, characterized by shared phonological, grammatical, and lexical features tracing back to a common ancestral tongue.
All labels observed (19)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Austronesian language canonical | 973 |
| Austronesian languages | 44 |
| Austronesian language variety | 29 |
| Micronesian language | 21 |
| Eastern Polynesian language | 11 |
| Austronesian proto-language | 7 |
| Bikol language variety | 5 |
| Oceanic languages | 5 |
| Polynesian language variety | 5 |
| Philippine language variety | 4 |
| Polynesian language subgroup | 4 |
| Polynesian outlier language | 3 |
| Austronesian dialect | 1 |
| Austronesian lect | 1 |
| Micronesian language group | 1 |
| Old Javanese language | 1 |
| Philippine languages | 1 |
| Polynesian Outlier language | 1 |
| language of the Solomon Islands | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Austronesian language
Generated description
An Austronesian language is any member of a large family of languages spoken from Madagascar across Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific to Easter Island, characterized by shared phonological, grammatical, and lexical features tracing back to a common ancestral tongue.