Austronesian Studies
The Austronesian is a scientific field, which deals with the Austronesian languages is concerned, the literature and the history and cultures of their speakers. Geographically, she mainly works in Southeast Asia and Oceania , where the largest numbers of speakers can be found, but due to emigration, people living abroad who speak an Austronesian language are becoming increasingly relevant for research.
There are around 300 million people who speak an Austronesian language, because not only - as is often assumed - smaller languages such as Tetum or Batak Dairi are part of the language families, but also important national and lingua franca such as: B. Indonesian , which alone has over 200 million speakers (including second speakers).
The Austronesian languages have a very old and rich literature, Javanese z. B. can look back on more than 1500 years of literary history, but also the Tagalog , which is the official language of the Philippines and has over 60 million speakers, has an extremely well-known and respected author and writer in Patricio G. Mariano .
Austronesian Studies is classified as a small subject in German university policy and has therefore repeatedly fallen victim to austerity measures in recent years. The subject can now only be studied as part of the Southeast Asian Studies course at the University of Hamburg. However, it is occasionally possible to specialize in linguistics or to study an individual philology, e.g. B. Indonesian at the University of Cologne as part of the courses in South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies as well as languages and cultures of the Islamic world.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Hamburger Gesellschaft für Austronesistik: Austronesistik at the University of Hamburg. Retrieved December 2, 2017.