Otto Dempwolff (25 May 1871 in Pillau – 27 November 1938 in
HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
) was a German
linguistLinguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning...
and
anthropologistAnthropology is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time....
who became famous for his research into
Austronesian languagesThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. It is on par with Bantu, Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families...
. He was the first to publish a comprehensive theory about how many languages that are spoken on the islands of
Southeast AsiaManila
Bangkok
Ho Chi Minh City
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Yangon
Bandung
Hanoi
Surabaya
Taichung
Kaohsiung
Medan|-|}...
and the Pacific Ocean can be traced back to one
proto-languageA proto-language is the common ancestor of the languages that form a language family. Occasionally, the German term Ursprache is used instead....
.
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Otto Dempwolff (25 May 1871 in Pillau – 27 November 1938 in
HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
) was a German
linguistLinguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning...
and
anthropologistAnthropology is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time....
who became famous for his research into
Austronesian languagesThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. It is on par with Bantu, Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families...
. He was the first to publish a comprehensive theory about how many languages that are spoken on the islands of
Southeast AsiaManila
Bangkok
Ho Chi Minh City
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Yangon
Bandung
Hanoi
Surabaya
Taichung
Kaohsiung
Medan|-|}...
and the Pacific Ocean can be traced back to one
proto-languageA proto-language is the common ancestor of the languages that form a language family. Occasionally, the German term Ursprache is used instead....
.
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