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The Austronesian expansion spread languages and maritime technologies from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia across the Pacific and Indian Ocean world.

Seafaring, language and settlement

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Why it matters

The idea in context

The Austronesian expansion is one of history's great acts of maritime imagination. Canoes, sails, crops, animals, stories and words moved through island worlds where the horizon was not an ending but a problem to be solved. Linguistic kinship still links places separated by astonishing distances. A family of languages became a map of courage, craft and return routes over open water.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Avustronezya yayılması, dilleri ve denizcilik teknolojilerini Tayvan ile Ada Güneydoğu Asyası'ndan Pasifik ve Hint Okyanusu dünyasına taşıdı.
Denizcilik, dil ve yerleşim

Avustronezya yayılması, tarihin büyük denizcilik hayallerinden biridir. Kanolar, yelkenler, ekinler, hayvanlar, hikayeler ve kelimeler, ufkun bir son değil çözülmesi gereken bir problem olduğu ada dünyalarında yol aldı. Dil akrabalığı bugün hâlâ şaşırtıcı mesafelerle ayrılmış yerleri birbirine bağlar. Bir dil ailesi, açık denizde cesaretin, zanaatın ve dönüş rotalarının haritasına dönüştü.

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