Austronesian languages are most likely the world's most geographically spread out language family, spanning the Indian and Pacific oceans. Some subfamilies of this group are the Bunun, West Formosan, Malayo-Polynesian, Phillipine, Micronesian and many others. This language family is regarded as having begun on Taiwan, spread to the Phillipines, and went to Indonesia, Malaysia, Madagascar, and the rest of the Pacific Ocean. The language family has some features in common like its verb and object relation system, reduplication, small phonemic inventories, shared vocabulary, and many of the families share syntax.

Question of the day:
If you speak or have studied an Austronesian language, then did you recognize any of the Austronesian grammar features?
Were you able to recognize any of the Proto-Austronesian words?

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Sources:
Blust, Robert (2013). The Austronesian Languages (revised ed.). Australian National University. hdl:1885/10191. ISBN 978-1-922185-07-5.

Blust, Robert; Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (2009). The Austronesian languages. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-602-0.

Comrie, Bernard (2001). "Languages of the world". In Aronoff, Mark; Rees-Miller, Janie (eds.). The Handbook of Linguistics. Languages of the world. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 19–42. ISBN 1-4051-0252-7.