Austronesia has become a phenomenon in the history of human migration. Within a relatively short time3,500 yearsmen in this community spread to cover more than three quarters of the earths midsectionfrom Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, spanning 60 degrees of earth latitude from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south. And until today, 1,200 languages have been born and spoken by almost 350 million people, mostly livin