The Evolution of Austronesian Language The Ice Age had ended 11,700 years ago, whence the evolution of Proto-Austronesian language begun. This period is also an important dividing point for the evolution of the Austronesian language. The original ethnic group was divided into two. After thousands of years, the ethnic groups in Taiwan began to expand to the Pacific Ocean and became the Austronesian over the Pacific islands. The ethnic groups in eastern Asia have developed from Yangtze River and Huai River and become the ethnic groups such as Wu, Yue, Shanghai, Fujian and Guangdong. Due to the factors of war and migration, their language was gradually influenced by nomadic people from the north, and Hmong in the south-west, and was drifting away gradually from the Austronesian language. Hereby we call it "Sino-Austronesian" language. [chart 1] So far, if the languages of Taiwanese and those Sino-Austronesian have any linkage or similar cognate, they must be originate...

Image: The meeting house of Tsou tribe, 1910 by Torii Ryūzō Torii Ryūzō,鳥居龍藏  ,とりいりゅうぞう，1870 － 1953 an anthropologist, ethnologist and archaeologist. Hui (meeting), A Cognate from Taiwan to Oceania The cognate “Hui” is used among Taiwanese, Hawaiian and New Zealand Maori. Its meaning is meeting or gathering. The meeting houses are common buildings in both Taiwan and Maori. Since the Maori people had departed Taiwan 7,000 years ago, so we can deduce the word “Hui” belongs to the proto-Austronesian language and it has been used for no less than 7,000 years. Hui (Māori assembly) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; A hui is a New Zealand term for a social gathering or assembly. Originally a Māori language word, it was used by Europeans as early as 1846 when referring to Māori gatherings[1] - but is now increasingly used in New Zealand English to describe events that are not exclusively Māori. Hawaiian Dictionary(Hwn to Eng) hui 1. nvi. Club, associ...