N-gated Hacker NewsDec 11
🏺🤓 Scholars discover ancient #Austronesian text, immediately blocked by Wikipedia's robot overlords for daring to lack a user agent. 🤖🔒 Because, really, who needs access to historical #linguistics when you can have phabricator links instead? 😂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C3%A2u_inscription #ancienttext #wikipedia #technologyhumor #scholarlyaccess #HackerNews #ngated
Đông Yên Châu inscription - Wikipedia

Hacker NewsDec 11

Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C3%A2u_inscription

#HackerNews #Oldest #Language #Discovery #Austronesian #Inscription #Archaeology #Linguistics

Đông Yên Châu inscription - Wikipedia

bikejournoNov 14

While I do not have any #tattoos myself, I do respect the #tradition behind it in #Polynesian and #Austronesian cultures. And it's great to see that the old art of tapping #ink under the skin outlawed as uncivilized in the Japanese era is still alive in #Taitung thanks to indigenous #Paiwan tattoo artist Cudjuy Padjidres (does that name sound Chinese to you?). #Pacific #Taiwan #TaiwanisnotChina

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8vBg181vQIo

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 謝雪矢Oct 20
The growing GenZ and GenAlpha rallies, which started here in the #Philippines and #Indonesia, and spread all the way to #Madagascar, are better called the "Austronesian Uprising". #Austronesian GenZ and GenAlpha are leading the way. Good job younglings. #RiseUp
Show threadfremandolasseFeb 12, 2025

@mattotcha

This is just another obvlous attempt to control and sinicize everything, even history more than 8,000 years ago.

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#Taiwan #Austronesian

Show threadfremandolasseFeb 12, 2025

@mattotcha

It's not a 'battleground' when one side whines and everyone else sticks to the facts.

The ancestors of the Austronesians may have originated from the Asian mainland more than 8,000 years ago - before Austronesian languages and cultures developed in Taiwan - but it's just ridiculous to speak of a 'Chinese nation' and a 'Chinese civilisation' when neither existed at the time.

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#Taiwan #Austronesian

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Dec 26, 2024
Thinking about #sucrose table #sugar today, and its impact on human civilization. Sugar is often regarded by health-conscious people as a modern, foreign, synthetic additive not used in traditional cuisines, but sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) was first domesticated by #Melanesian and #Austronesian people in #Oceania and #SEAsia about 4000 BCE, 6000 years ago, and crystalline sugar was first produced about 2500 years ago in India. About 300 years later, soy sauce was first produced in China.
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Dec 22, 2024

If you want a nice little #linguistics video about my native language #Tagalog, here's a well-explained intro to the #Austronesian alignment aka symmetric voice: https://youtube.com/shorts/MF_1Di6Hy3k

And if you combine this with tenses, Tagalog and other Austronesian languages are probably up there among #languages that have the most ways of conjugating verbs.

#Philippines #tootSEA

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Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 謝雪矢Dec 3, 2024
👇🏽 #Austronesian cousins thousands of years removed. For a while there I thought I was looking at Filipinos. The shape of the face, nose, eyes, the way they smile. And best of all, we are BROWN and proud 🤎 to be a 🟤.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ubfwvumda7wad5h66vbial6g/post/3lbeeeoxx4l23
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 謝雪矢Dec 3, 2024
The #Austronesian, or #OutOfTaiwan, theory is the most plausible and widely accepted theory of how #SouthEastAsia islands, #Micronesia, #Melanesia, #Polynesia, & #Madagascar were inhabited. The Philippine #DepEd needs to update school textbooks, & stop pushing the #Malay theory.