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Languages from Southeast Asia Roaming Oceania: ECAI Linguistic Atlas on Austronesia

David Blundell
National Taiwan University

The digital cultural atlas for the Taiwan Austronesian speakers and the vast region beyond is in a process of annotated mapping in the field of Indo-Pacific humanities studies. One layer is based on information of the Language Atlas of the Pacific Area (Wurm and Hattori 1981 and 1983). Other layers will mark times in prehistory and up to the present as continuous work from mutual research serving as an academic bulletin board on the Internet for scholarly exchange from Southeast Asia across Oceania.

Currently I am working at Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics, and a similar institute at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, for linguistic field studies and research on Austronesian languages. The atlas components completed are the Wurm and Hattori 1981 and 1983 data layer based on their published 1980s information. Regions of the Philippines and Vietnam are undergoing mapping. And Hainan is being looked at for linguistic verification on the present state of Austronesian languages.