List of major and official Austronesian languages
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This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar.
Major languages
- Languages with at least 4 million native speakers
- Javanese (76 million)
- Filipino / Tagalog (47 million native, ~90 million total[1])
- Malay / Indonesian, (45 million native, ~250 million total)
- Sundanese (27 million)
- Cebuano (19 million native, ~30 million total)
- Malagasy (17 million)
- Madurese (14 million)
- Ilokano (8 million native, ~10 million total)
- Hiligaynon (7 million native, ~11 million total)
- Minangkabau (7 million)
- Batak (7 million, all dialects)
- Bikol (4.6 million, all dialects)
- Banjar (4.5 million)
- Balinese (4 million)
- Official languages
- Carolinian (5,700,
Northern Mariana Islands) - Chamorro (60,000,
Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) - Fijian (350,000 native, 550,000 total,
Fiji) - Filipino (47 million native, ~90 million total,
Philippines) - Gilbertese (100,000,
Kiribati) - Hawaiian (1,000 native, 8,000 competent,
Hawaii) - Malay / Indonesian, (45 million native, ~250 million total,
Brunei, 
East Timor, 
Indonesia, 
Malaysia, and 
Singapore) - Malagasy (17 million,
Madagascar) - Māori (100,000,
New Zealand) - Marshallese (> 44,000,
Marshall Islands) - Nauruan (6,000,
Nauru) - Niuean (8,000,
Niue) - Palauan (15,000,
Palau) - Rapa Nui (5,000,
Easter Island) - Samoan (370,000,
Samoa, 
American Samoa) - Sonsorolese (600, Sonsorol, Palau)
- Tahitian (120,000,
French Polynesia) - Tetum (800,000 speakers, East Timor)
- Tobian (100, Hatohobei, Palau)
- Tokelauan (3,500,
Tokelau) - Tongan (108,000,
Tonga) - Tuvaluan (13,000,
Tuvalu)
Dialects and Creoles
- Dialects of major Austronesian languages
- Banyumas Javanese, (1,000,000 native, Indonesia)
- Osing Javanese (300,000 native, Indonesia)
- Batak Karo language (600,000 native, Indonesia)
- Batak Toba language (2,000,000 native, Indonesia)
- Central Bikol language (2,500,000 native, The Philippines
- Albay Bikol language (1,900,000 native, The Philippines
- Itbayat language, (3,500 native, The Philippines
- Batak Pakpak language (1,200,000 native, Indonesia)
- Pattani Malay (1,500,000 native, Thailand)
- Kelantan Malay (1,600,000 native, Malaysia)
- Terengganu Malay, (1,100,000 native, Malaysia)
- Pahang Malay, (1,000,000 native, Malaysia)
- Perak Malay, (1,400,000 native, Malaysia)
- Jambi Malay, (700,000 native, Indonesia)
- Kedah Malay, (5,000,000 native, Malaysia)
- Creoles and pidgins based on Austronesian languages
- Betawi language, (3,000,000 native, Indonesia)
- Sri Lanka Malay, (50,000, Sri Lanka)
- Cocos Malay, (4000, Australia and Malaysia)
- Baba Malay, (500,000 Indonesia and Malaysia)
- Sabah Malay, (3,000,000, Malaysia)
- Ambonese Malay, (250,000 native, Indonesia
- Papuan Malay, (500,000, Indonesia)
- Manado Malay, (850,000, Indonesia)
- North Moluccan Malay, (700,000, Indonesia)
- Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin, (40?, Australia)
- Chetty Malay, (300?, Malaysia)
- Bahasa Rojak, (Malaysia)