BY,SENTHIL PRABHU&JON CARRUTHERS

GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL-Chapter 17 17 SPEEDBOAT

TO POLYNESIA

QUESTION

• When the population movement starts to Polynesia?

• How it was made?

• What are all changes in their language and life?

• What are the evidence for the population movement?

HISTORY• In the beginning the islands of the pacific were getting colonized by

asian colonist and who began arriving in new guinea around 40,000

B.C.

• The Austronesia migration began from the Chinese mainland and in

3500 B.C reached Taiwan, the Philippines by 3000 B.C, Sumatra and

java by 2000B.C, North New Guinea by 1600B.C, Soma by 1200B.C,

and Hawaii, Easter Island and Madagascar by 500A.D.

• The migration or Austronesia Expansion was among the beigest

population movements of the last 6000 years, when the Chinese

emigrants transformed into Polynesians.

MIGRATION

• A double-outrigger selling canoe made Austronesia migration

possible.

• The Polynesian voyaging craft was the double canoe, which

was made of two hollow tree trunks connected by lashed

crossbeams. The two hulls gave this craft stability and the

capacity to carry heavy loads.

• A medium size voyaging canoe was 50 to 60 feet long, could

accommodate two dozen or so migrants, their food supplies,

livestock and planning materials.

CANOES1. Double voyaging canoe. Could be

up to 20 meters long.

2. The vaka poti was built after the

style of a long boat with clinker-

built planking, equipped with a

rudder and a canvas sail. It was

typical of the Europeanized canoe

built after the arrival of the white

man

3. Double canoe from the central

Tuamotus. Intended for long

voyages, it measured 12 to 20

meters, according to the design. Its

two masts have supports, and the

secondary hull, which functions as

an outrigger, is shorter than the

main one.

PROOF• The Austronesia realm consists of Taiwan, The Philippines,

Indonesian and many pacific islands.

• First archeological signs within the Austronesia realm come

from Taiwan, from the 4th million B.C where they found polished

stone tool and distinctive decorated pottery style called

Tap’en-keng pottery.

• Within a millennium the Ta-p’en-keng culture reached Taiwan.

They found the evidence that the culture deprived from it

spread further and further from Taiwan.

ARCHEOLOGY EVIDENCE

AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES

• The language family consists of 959 languages, that are

divided into four sub families.

• The main sub family is Malayo-Polynesian, which comprise of

945 of those 959 languages.

• Before the expansion of Europeans speaking Indo-European

languages, Austronesia was the most wide spread language

family in the world.

• Taiwan is homeland to where the have been spoken for the

most time and have consequently had the longest time to

diverge.

• Their languages are equally homogeneous.

• Some Austronesia words are borrowed from English : taboo

and tattoo are from the Polynesian languages, boondocks from

Tata-log language of the Philippines, and Orangutan from

Malay.

• Many of Indo-European language family languages are very

similar., For example the word sheep sound very similar to one

another: avis, ovis, oveja, ovtsa, owis and oi. Which is

Lithuanian, Sanskrit, Latin, Spanish, Russian, Greek and Irish.

WESTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

• Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) is a western subfamily of

the Malayo-Polynesian languages.

• The principle branches of WMP are Borneo-Philippines, Sunda-

Sulawesi, Central Malayo-Polynesian, South Halmaher-West

New Guinea and oceanic.

• Some of the largest and best known Austronesia languages

which include: Llokano, Tagalog, Cebuano, Malay, Acehnese,

Toba, Batak, Minangkauo, Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese,

Buginese, Makasarese, and Malagasy are all western Malayo-

Polynesian.

LANGUAGE LINK

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