Penyebaran bangsa Nusantara Austronesia
Bangsa Nusantara (rumpun bangsa Austronesia) merupakan bangsa yang penyebarannya terluas di dunia, yakni diperkirakan mencapai 60% perjalanan di muka bumi, tersebar di hampir semua benua sebagai penduduk Asli, yakni Afrika, Asia, Australia dan Amerika. Membujur dari Taiwan dan Hawaii di utara hingga ke Selandia Baru (Aotearoa) di Selatan, melintang dari Madagaskar di Barat hingga ke Pulau Paskah (Rapa Nui / Easter Island) di timur. 21 bahasa Austronesia dijadikan bahasa resmi di 34 negara.

21 bahasa Austronesia yang dijadikan bahasa resmi tersebut adalah:
- Carolinian (5,700, Northern Mariana Islands)
- Chamorro (60,000, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands)
- Fijian (350,000 native, 550,000 total, Fiji)
- Filipino (47 million native, ~90 million total, Philippines)
- Gilbertese (100,000, Kiribati)
- Hawaiian (1000 native, 8000 competent, Hawaii)
- Malay / Indonesian, (45 million native, ~250 million total, Brunei, EastTimor, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore)
- Malagasy (17 million, Madagascar)
- Māori (100,000, New Zealand)
- Marshallese (> 44,000, Marshall Islands)
- Nauruan (6,000, Nauru)
- Niuean (8,000, Niue)
- Palauan (15,000, Palau)
- Rapa Nui (5,000, Easter Island)
- Samoan (370,000, Samoa, American Samoa)
- Sonsorolese (600, Sonsorol, Palau)
- Tahitian (120,000, French Polynesia)
- Tetum (800,000 speakers, East Timor)
- Tobian (100, Hatohobei, Palau)
- Tongan (108,000, Tonga)
- Tuvaluan (13,000, Tuvalu)
Ke-34 negara tersebut adalah:
- Australia
- Christmas Island : Malay
- Cocos (Keeling Islands) : Malay
- Brunei: Malay
- Burma (Myanmar) : Moken
- Cambodia : Cham
- Chile :
- Easter Island : Rapa Nuian
- China:
- Hainan : Tsat
- East Timor : Tetum, Tukudede, Mambae.
- Federated States of Micronesia: Chuukese, Pohnpeian, Kosrae, Yap
- Fiji: Fijian
- France:
- French Polynesia: Tahitian, Tuamotuan, Austral, Marquesan
- New Caledonia: Drehu, Paici, Ajië
- Wallis and Futuna: Wallisian, Futunan
- Indonesia: Indonesian, Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, many others
- Kiribati: Kiribati
- Madagascar: Malagasy
- Marshall Islands: Marshallese
- Malaysia: Malay, many others
- Myanmar: Moken
- Nauru: Nauruan
- New Zealand: Maori
- Cook Islands: Cook Islands Maori, Pukapukan, Penrhyn
- Niue: Niuean
- Tokelau: Tokelauan
- Palau: Palauan,
- Papua New Guinea: Motu, Adzera, Bola, many more
- Philippines: Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Tagalog, many more
- Samoa: Samoan
- Singapore: Malay
- Solomon Islands: Kwara'ae, Lengo, 'Are'are, many more
- Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Malay
- Suriname: Javanese
- Taiwan: Amis, Paiwan, Rukai, Puyuma, Atayal, Tsou, Saisiyat, Bunun, Thao, Tao(Yami), Kavalan, Truku, Sediq, Sakizaya
- Thailand
- Pattani (region): Yawi (Malay dialect)
- Tonga: Tongan
- Tuvalu: Tuvaluan
- United States:
- American Samoa: Samoan
- Guam: Chamorro
- Hawai'i: Hawaiian, Ilokano
- Northern Mariana Islands: Chamorro, Carolinian
- Vanuatu: Hano, Lenakel, Paama, many more
- Vietnam: Cham, Jarai, Rade, others
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