The latest salvo in the debate over the “Out of Taiwan” hypothesis came last month from a mainland academic who said the origins of the Austronesian peoples were in the mainland’s southeast ...

Some speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka, and there are indigenous languages or Formosan languages, which are part of the Austronesian language family. An estimated 4,000+ Taiwanese-Americans live ...

[2] A study published last month in Archaeological Research in Asia analysed research reports from over 250 archaeological sites of Austronesian peoples in Taiwan. Research revealed that tooth ...

Taiwan's Indigenous peoples are linguistically connected to the Austronesian peoples, a seafaring population which dispersed throughout the Asia-Pacific. Austronesian languages are now spoken by ...