Phonology of the Austronesian languages

Professor François Zewen's lectures in 2004 on the Phonology of Austronesian Languages and in 2007 on the Grammar of Ancient Javanese confirm the tradition of the University of Hamburg and its Department of Languages and Cultures of Indonesia and the South Pacific, which will celebrate its first centenary in 2013. It was here where the German linguist Otto Dempwolff created the idea of an Austronesian language, the mother tongue of nearly 1300 languages spoken in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, which represent 20% of the languages spoken on Earth.

The work of archaeologists and geneticists now confirms that of the linguists: the Austronesian world extends over two oceans, from Madagascar to Easter Island, from Hawai'i to Taiwan.

François Zewen published "Introduction à la langue des îles Marquises, le parler de Nukuhiva" (Introduction to the language of the Marquesas Islands, the language of Nukuhiva) in 1987, the first manual of the contemporary Marquesan language, which you can buy here.

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