What if the Austronesian World United? United Austronesia 

Any Austronesian? Leave a like. Hope one day we all will unite again.

"So what's five in your language?" Every Austronesian: "LIMA"

As a pacific islander in Melanesia, we were always taught in school about our Austronesian heritage but after watching this video, I realized that I have a big family in Asia

Actually we do not have to be the same to be united. We just need to love and respect each other despite of our differences.

While some use "FatherLAND", "MotherLAND" or "HomeLAND" to refer to their native land, the Malay-Indonesian word for the term is "Tanah Air" which literally translates to "WATER LAND" (Tanah = Land + Air = Water). The word clearly describe the Malay/Austronesian as the people who dominate and build civilization not only on land but also on water. Hence, they are the masters of the land and seas.

Austronesian after teaching a nation to sail: What can I say except you’re welcome

I am born and raised in the UK but i am a native visayan (Bohol island) from the Philippines. It just amazes me how my austronesian people have sailed as far west to Africa (Madagascar) all the way east to Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Living in London we don't have the sea but whenever I get a chance to go to the seaside or in fact, any body of water I have always had a strong connection to it. I guess it's within my genes to have an affinity to water and the sea.

I'm a Filipino and I'm proud to be an Austronesian 🇵🇭❤

That's why almost all SEA countries are friendly to each other. 🖐 if you agree.

Hi.. I am one of Austronesian. I am originally known as Sea DAYAK by Englishmen colonials. My local etnic name is Iban. Iban tribe is one of the oldest etnic from the same root with Malay and others Austronesian. 40% of our language is similar yet not same pronunciation with Malay Language. Beside that, Iban Tribe also quite similar with Filipino in terms of skin color and facial shapes. BTW, I am Malaysian too just because I am from Sarawak, part of malaysia.

Mahal kita for Indonesia and Philipines . Im from Malaysia ❤️🌹

I'm Malay from Malaysia i love my Indonesian Filipino brothers and sisters long live NUSANTARA

Too bad the sea that's between us Austronesians is claimed by the Chinese government. 😭

Indonesia, aku cinta kamu from the philippines ❤🌺

Taiwanese here. Great video. I would like to see more brotherhood shared between Austronesian countries.

🇲🇬🇲🇬🇲🇬🇲🇬 Malagasy girl from Madagascar love u austronesian brother

Cool thanks for accepting my req, i'm also austronesian from indonesia. In indonesia we have a popular kindergarten song called Nenek Moyangku seorang pelaut (my ancestors were sailors).

spread out like a tsunami... I see what you did there.

I hope our country is always safe and blessed 🙏 . I love 🇮🇩🇵🇭🇸🇬🇲🇾🇧🇳🇹🇱 we are separate siblings ♥♥♥ From 🇮🇩

❌ Austronesians 🙅‍♀️ ✅ Lima gang ✋😊

Thanks very much for featuring this 😍😍😱! Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭

I feel smarter after watching your videos ! Thankful

“Great seafarer and a coconut worshipper” Salute from Indonesia 🇮🇩

in Indonesia there is an old and famous song called "Nenek moyang ku" or "My ancestors" in english .... the lyrics are like this.... My ancestors were sailors Loves to wade through the ocean Ride the waves without fear Going through storms is normal The wind blows the sails grow The waves crash on the beach Brave youth rise up now To the sea, we're all together Long elephant trunk My cat's hair is striped God is merciful Dear children (in bahasa Indonesia) Nenek moyangku orang pelaut Gemar mengarung luas samudra Menerjang ombak tiada takut Menempuh badai sudah biasa Angin bertiup layar terkembang Ombak berdebur di tepi pantai Pemuda b'rani bangkit sekarang Ke laut kita beramai-ramai Belalai gajah panjang Bulu kucingku belang Tuhan maha penyayang Anak-anak disayang

The idea is not new we called it NUSANTARA thousands of years ago.

You did a great job theorizing about united Austronesia, Mason! Although maintaining unity and order in archipelagic countries like Indonesia and the Philippines is already a challenge, let alone a united Pan-Austronesian nation. But still, a united Austronesia has been a dream for most of us, Austronesian.

Talofa from a Samoan to all my “South Islanders” out there 🤙🏽

Austronesians are friendly people who love to smile.

If Malaysia-Indonesia-Philippine-Brunei-Singapore is united & become a single nation, it's gonna be one of the greatest nation in the world.. unfortunately a long time ago, British & Dutch are fighting with each others over British Malaya (Malaysia) & Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), meanwhile at the north, the cruel Spanish is crushing Filipino's to death.. poor our homeland.. Europe, you so bad 👎😭

Love my brothers and sisters from the Philippines.

This is the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) reconstructed words that I found in Wikipedia, and I find this really interesting when I compared this to my native Indonesian language! *pajay: padi (rice plant) *beRas: beras (husked rice) *qayam (bird in PAN): ayam (chicken in Indonesian) *babuy: babi (pig) *busuR: busur (bow) *panaq: panah (arrow) *bubu: bubu (fish trap) *bakuŋ: bakung (lily plant) *buluq: buluh (bamboo) *tuduR: tidur (to sleep) *diRi: (ber)diri (to stand) *piliq: pilih (to choose) *layap (to fly in PAN): (me)layap (wandering, walking directionless in Indonesian) *matay: mati (die) *tuk: (pa)tuk (to peck, also beak in PAN) *ʃep: (hi)sap (to suck) *ʃuk: (ma)suk (go in, through) *buŋa: bunga (flower) *kaŋa : (me)nganga (to open mouth) *pan: (um)pan (bait) *kepit (pinched together in PAN): kepit (pressed between 2 parts of body, usually armpit in Indonesian) *diŋdiŋ: dinding (wall) *diqdiq: didih (boiling, to boil) *biɣbiɣ: bibir (lips) *dasdas: dada (chest) *luluñ: gulung (to roll) *padem: padam (extinguished) *baŋ: (ter)bang (to fly) *halaŋ: halang (a bar, be an obstacle) *kaŋkaŋ: kangkang (spread the legs) *kiskis: kikis (to scrape off) *ʃelʃel : sesal (regret) *ʃuʃu (breast in PAN): susu (milk in Indonesian) *dabuk: debu (ash) *timbun (heap in PAN): timbun (to pile in Indonesian) *tuŋaw: tungau (a kind of mite) *qaŋet: hangat (warm) *ʃeŋet (acrid in smell in PAN): sangit (a kind of unpleasant smell in Indonesian) *dataɣ: datar (flat, flat area) *luʃ : (mu)lus (smooth, slippery) *baliw: balik (return, go back) *guliŋ: guling (roll up) *telaq/kelaq: celah (crack or split) *ʃaŋkut: sangkut (caught on a hook) *aŋkup: tangkup (put in cupped hands) *leŋkuŋ: lengkung (bent) *ñiket/ñaŋket: lengket (sticky) *siket: ikat (to tie) *duŋ: (lin)dung (to protect, shelter) *deket: dekat (near) *tubuq: tumbuh (to grow) * ɣábun (fog in PAN): embun (dew in Indonesian) *dakep: tangkap (to catch) *qaqay: kaki (leg, foot) *maCa: mata (eye) *Caliŋa: telinga (ear) *daRaq: darah (blood) *Cuqelan: tulang (bone) *liqeR: leher (neck) *Rumaq: rumah (house) *SulaR: ular (snake) *luCuŋ: lutung (a species of primate) *aNay: anai-anai (termite) *SabaRat (west monsoon in PAN): barat (west in Indonesian) *timuR (east monsoon in PAN): timur (east in Indonesian) *laŋaw: langau (fly, in Indonesian specifically a kind of blood sucking fly) *biŋbiŋ: bimbing (to guide) *but: (ca)but (to pluck out) *peʃ: (kem)pis (to deflate) Also, I recognized these words but it's Javanese instead of Indonesian: *asu: asu (dog) *manuk (chicken in PAN): manuk (bird in Javanese) *ququ: yuyu (crab) I wonder how would it be for another Austronesian language speakers😄

Oh my god. This content is so extensive. I love it Masaman.

United Austronesian Federation will have full domination over the choke-point straits in the most important route of global trade (the straits of Malacca, Sunda, Makassar, Lombok, Sulu Sea, Eastern Indonesian Sea, and southern part of South China Sea. It is a blessing, but also could be a curse, as without a strong naval power, all countries which have their own interests in the global trade will scramble to this area like in the past.

Here in Philippines, there's a Nomadic sea Tribe that still spreading until now we called it Badjao. Some of our badjao brothers is still living in a traditional way in a boathouse, and spending almost of their life at the sea. That tribe is also common at Indonesia and Malaysia. The tribe that can enter country by country without passing by in immigration.. But now, those tribe are avoiding the coast guard if they want to enter to other country.. Tsk Civilization..

It make sense, i met my friend from Madagascar and i always thought he looks like a common Filipino too 😊

Excellent video ! Scholarly yet clearly and impressively presented which even the common man can understand and appreciate ! Thank you and more success to your group..

ASEAN ××× Pan-Austronesia ✓✓✓

Maphilindo fans... I'm one of them.

Every austronesian should settle their differences and unite against a common enemy. We know our enemy already. It is our seas guys. it's been with our ancestors for a very long time. We sailed our seas long before the chinese did. And we have our every right to claim what is ours.

This was a great watch thanks for the video. Watching from NZ ✌🏼.

Masaman vids always put me in a good mood!

*I sometimes imagine Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines & Singapore reunited into a single country. We used to be one, but the Dutch, British and Portuguese separated us. So sad.... i miss you all my family, love you, mahal kita 💕*

Greetings to my fellow Austronesians from Tahiti.

Oh my god.. I’m blown away by this .. a video of sonny’s best food review brought me to this one when the Madagascans started saying “salamat “ and “sarap” which I immediately understood being a Filipino 😳

I am from Papua New Guinea, specifically New Ireland and I love your videos. Keep up the good work 🙌🏿

im filipino, im gonna start calling myself austronesian!! lol

Thanks for spreading awareness on the Austronesians. Having a common origin, we should encourage spreading awareness and more interaction with each other like - trade, cultural exchange, education, annual sports events and the like. It would be a uniting factor based on our common origin and it should foster tolerance and respect that transcends religion, politics or country of origin.

wow very nice video, man!

no matter What our religion is, no matter what our country is, we are the missing brothers long time ago under ONE BIG family AUSTRONESIAN/MALAYO POLYNESIA. Proud of it. Imagine if we unite as one, it will be half of the world map ! Hope one day we can unite as one. Terima Kasih, :Malaysian Malay🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

I'm Indonesian, and I'm Austronesian. 🇮🇩

Malagasy here, people of the pirogue. Vahoaka as we would say. Misaotra dia ho ela velona !

So basically, Austronesian are/were like vikings, always sailing the ocean for something.

If the Austronesian world united, Moana should be its leader

If the Austronesian World United, I will travel by ship or boat more :-0

Me 🇵🇬 after finding out my ancestors were Asian Because of austronesian migration Papua New Guinea has 800 languages 300 austronesian and 500 papuan 😌🙏🏽 My tribe like Chewing bettlenuts and making claypots ahhh that's so austronesian I can't believe I didn't realise 😳 🤫 Respect to my ancestors 😳😳😳

A very nice explanation. Thanks.

I am the only one here who is impressed by the united flags

Thank you for including my fellow Pacific islanders in your videos again!!!

Amazing information. Wow!

Masaman: "José Rai-zal" Literally every filipino: **visible confusion**

You forgot to mention Malay, which is most likely the second or even first most widely spoken non-native language in the Austronesian world. Most Indonesians speak Malay (i.e. Indonesian) as a second language, although with practically native fluency due to its use in almost all areas of life.

I'm Malay, Javanese, Minangkabau, Banjarese(Malay+Dayak) descent from Malaysia. And i'm proud to be Austronesian , Malaysian Malay and son of Srivijayan😎

Dont let western people tell our history too much. Im Moluccan and much of these facts are true but has more layers to it. You cant ignore the aborinals when talking about the whole area from taiwan to hawaii. One day I hope that we can tell our own history.

this video is amazing!!!

My father is Javanese My mother is Malay I am Malaysian🇲🇾❤️

If austronisian united we hold majority of international trade, and two big oceans .. All we need to do is to have Powerfull navy to control many nations...

Rule britania britania rule the wave Austronesian:hold my beer

Incredible video

There is other Malay community in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 , South Africa 🇿🇦 and Cocos & Christmas Island of Australia 🇭🇲

There was an actual steps or effort taken to realise this in the early 50s. It's called Maphilindo (Malaysia, Phillipines and Indonesia). In the end due to the difficulty of administration, political difference and economic disparity, was not realised. Not as big as the video example but close enough. A country with around 40k island is a challenge to run as each island or chains of island are diverse in their own culture.

Great video! Please cover the Malagasy more in depth in a future video!

"masters of the sea" what a badass title

FILIPINO 1 to 10... ONE=ISA TWO=DALAWA THREE=TATLO FOUR=APAT FIVE=LIMA SIX=ANIM SEVEN=PITO EIGHT=WALO NINE=SIYAM TEN=SAMPU

In July 1963 then President Diosdado Macapagal held a Manila Summit aiming the formation of MAPHILINDO (Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia), it was a proposed then a nonpolitical confederation of the three Southeast Asian countries. It has short lived because of the member nations difference in political and territorial agenda. If this differences were truly address like what the current ASEAN organization is doing, there might be a higher chance that this Region of the world can be a force to reckon with.

Amazing!!

I'm glad you mentioned that the word "Malay" in reference to the people of Southeast Asia etc was a misconception that "Austronesians" came from the Malay pen. I think that came up when the European colonizers didn't know what to make of this blob of brown people, speaking similar language with similar customs. There's only the one group of Austronesians who settled northern Philippines responsible for the spread of Austronesian language, culture, and some dna throughout the Pacific, all the way to Madagascar. The rest of the Austronesian groups remained in Formosa/Taiwan. The grouping of peoples, language, society and culture commonly called Malay-Polynesian, is really just that one group. It's better to refer to call this group of Austronesian peoples according to sub groups, e.g. Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians, Micronesians, Polynesians, Malagasy etc to be more accurate.

I think if that happen they'll use Indonesia or Malay Johor-Riau Language to be lingua franca rather than English or Chinese-Cantonese. Malay Riau Languages already became lingua franca in Nusantara for century even Phippine used that language before Spain arrived. Also i think Malay Johor-Riau or Bahasa Indonesia will be better to be Lingua Franca rather Cantonese, Mandarin or English, due some various reason: 1.Doesn't have a tense Past, or Future. (while English have a tense, past but no Future) 2.Doesn't have Feminime or Masculine 3.Pronunciation mostly completely Phonetic, except the letter "E" seriously, They should change or add some letter after "E" since they have 6 vocal. A, İ, U, I, O, E. (Even though is better than English Pronunciation) 4.They use Roman Script, of course is better than Mandarin-Cantonese Script. 5. Doesn't have Verb Conjugation, we use prefix-suffixes "Di, and Ter" so no Verb Conjugation. 6. Doesn't have Article. Is,am, Are, Were, Have + Be etc. 7.Doesn't have Tonal pronunciation. (Mandarin and Cantonese have Tonal pronunciation). 8. Plural are rarely used. 9. Easy to memorize vocabulary if you understand prefix and suffixes.

Nice job! I would also suggest getting into deeper discussions that focus on some of the indigenous peoples of that region. Anyway, like usual, here are some ideas to think about. (I also want to reiterate that I am making these lists to help you brainstorm. I do not want to seem like I am demanding in any, way, shape form): 1. Reiterating my suggestions you have not done yet (some of which I won't be mentioning on this list) 2. Red Deer Cave People 3. Denisovans (what we do know about them) 4. Cheddar Man and his unique phenotype 5. What phenotypes of Homo sapiens sapiens went extinct? What did they look like? This focuses more on physical traits of populations, not so much as cultural groups. 6. Type of thought experiment: what if a certain culture, civilization, population, or language group survived to today? And with the latter part with the language groups, what if they were a "united" country today? 7. Uralic Peoples (suggest again) 8. Esperanto Culture (suggest again) 9. Zoroastrianism population and culture in modern day (suggest again) 10. Doggerland 11. Jews of China 12. Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean) (suggest again) 13. Insular Chile (Southeast Pacific) 14. Pygmy peoples and genetics 15. Albinos and albinism 16. The "-stan" nations 17. Bulgaria 18. Nations within nations (beyond the ones you've mentioned already/get into more details with the ones you have) 19. Peoples or places that almost no one has heard of and most people don't realize are inhabited (ex. Palmerston Islanders, 20. ***City based ethnic groups/new ethnogenesis we are seeing right now!***

We are all either Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Bugis, Dayak, Madura, Batak, Minang, Minahasa Moro. We are all one Austronesian nation from Madagascar, the peninsula of the archipelago to Hawaii, America. Even American Indians are thought to be our Austronesian people.

Thanks to this video maker that united us as one.. Am proud austronesian from Singapore. Salam sayang dari Singapura

Jose Rizal is like Hoh-seh Rii-zaal, not Rayzal

1 Prayer - Forgiveness To Jose Rizal For Pronouncing Is Name Wrong

good work

Our language is simillar, so we have same ancestor. So, stop fight each other. Greetings from indonesia.

The fact that we have the pyramids of Gunung Padang, which is thousands of years older than the Giza Pyramids..shows how advanced our ancestors were, I'm very proud that thousands years ago our ancestors already have legal codes, high cultural society.. but i suspect that we are not taught with real history of our ancestors..

And in EU4, we would be called the "Empire of Malaya".

Excellent...

I'm from Mindanao, Philippines. We count numbers 1 -10. 1- Isa 2- Duha 3- Tulo 4- Upat 5- Lima 6- Unom 7- Pito 8- Walo 9- Siyam 10- Napulo We also count 1-10 1- Uno 2- Dos 3- Tres 4- Kwatro 5- Sinko 6- Sais 7- Syete 8- Utso 9- Nwebe 10- Dyes

I have controversial idea: possibile direction of migrations after global warming changed world.

ASEAN is next best thing for Austronesian to cooperate politically, economically and culturally, while waiting for World Austronesian Congress, an expansion of Greater Nusantara

Hi from Bali here! Great work - so much sense for the diversity genetic ethnic spread here ....

Asia in ancient history in a nutshell- Sino-Tibetans (mainland East Asians): I love rice! And emperors! And Buddha! Japonic people (Japanese/Ryukyuan East Asians): Sugoi, Chinese culture is so cool! I luv u, China SENPAI!!! Indian Aryans (Pakistani/North Indian Asians): Geometry is TOTALLY simple. Dravidians (South Indian Asians): Why do you hate us, Aryans? West Asian Aryans (Iranian Asians): _man, fire is such a dope god_ Semitic people (Levantine/Peninsular Arabian Asians): Hey, guys! I just got these weird stone tablets from some storm clouds on Sinai! Turkic people (Anatolian/Siberian Asians): I don't eat rice, also, I live with bears. Also, I luv Jewish people!

Yes I'm early! Love from Malaysia

The Finno-Ugric languages or the finns next.

Fun fact: Most of Polynesian knows which numbers Talu and Lima are referring to

In Philippine schools, we’re taught (late 90s textbooks) that the islands were populated mainly by 3 waves of migration: Negritos- maybe related to those who ended up in the Pacific islands; Indones- maybe the Formosa group; and Malays- probably the mainland group.

Great video. Thank you! From NZ Maori woman

With all the global political turmoil and rapid change in the 21st century, a strategic pan-austronesian economic and military alliance would not only be beneficial but necessary. If we had united hundreds of years ago, imagine what we can accomplish by then.

cool video 😎

3 Austronesia poeple : 1. Nusantara 🇲🇾🇮🇩🇧🇳🇵🇭🇹🇱 2. Micronesia 3. Polynesia