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austronesian

Aus.tro.ne.sian \.o.s-tr*-'ne--zh*n, .a:s-, -sh*n\ aj [Austronesia, islands 
   of the southern Pacific] : of, relating to, or constituting a family of 
   agglutinative languages spoken in the area extending from Madagascar 
   eastward through the Malay peninsula and archipelago to Hawaii and Easter 
   Island and including practically all the native languages of the Pacific 
   islands with exception of the Australian, Papuan, and Negrito languages