Austronesia
![The region where the Austronesian languages are spoken spans over 200 degrees of longitude from Madagascar to Easter Island](/Images/godic/202412/22/Austroneske_jazyky1942.jpg")
Austronesia, in historical terms, refers to the homeland of the peoples who speak Austronesian languages, including Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, Maori, Malagasy, Hawaiian, Fijian, ******'s Austronesian languages and around a thousand other languages. The Austronesian homeland is thought by linguists to have been prehistoric ******.