%0 Journal Article %T The Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal %A Robert Blust %J - %D 2019 %R 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012440 %X The Austronesian language family is the second largest on Earth in number of languages, and was the largest in geographical extent before the European colonial expansions of the past five centuries.. %U https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012440