youronlyone Mod , 1 month ago to Philippines, the Pearl of the Orient Seas

The most accepted theory about migrations in Southern and Eastern #AsiaPacific is #Austronesian.

From #Taiwan, to the #Philippines, and then the rest of #SouthEastAsia, #Micronesia, #Melanesia, #Polynesia, and as far as #Madagascar.

If I'm going to interpret this, the natives of Taiwan survived as the primary people in what we know today as the Philippine archipelago. From the Philippines, they spread everywhere.

In other words, they're all #Filipino! ᜑᜑᜑᜑ 😹 (Or, native Taiwanese to be exact.)

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cendawanita , 7 months ago to Pinoy

There's a new(ish) video up on Austronesian languages - https://youtu.be/TAa9sT3qxaU - and this comment is such a callout for our people being too online lmao

(Context: for some reason, the word for 'five' is pretty consistently lima/ima/limo/imo across the languages in the family group)

ETA: the video also looks pretty interesting! I'll watch in a bit

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