@Joe_from_Rio
Vikings : "We went to Vinland !" Austronesians : "That's cute"
@Guide_ToParadise
Austronesians were some of the greatest seafarers in history. Thousands of years ago, they sailed from Taiwan and spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans—even reaching Madagascar before most people knew it existed. What’s wild is their languages are still connected across places as far apart as Hawaii and Madagascar.
@aberry1602
I love these shorts about nomadic/seafaring people!
@ja4309
When you pulled out the words found in Malagasy and Ma'anyan, I recognized some of those even without knowing the language as I speak Filipino and Visayan. Fellow Austronesian language speakers could probably tell as well
@Taiwannabe
Love this! The Austronesian story is so amazing yet so unknown. My wife is Truku from Taiwan so maybe I'm a bit biased lol.
@thezackast2752
How in the world do you manage to go all the way to Madagascar and Rapa nui but somehow miss an entire continent like 30 miles south of you
@Soturi92
My friend who’s Malagasy really threw me off when I first found out lol! They speak French and honestly we all thought they were just a dark Indonesian. I even guessed india 😂 they were like “YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER”
@tamirbejar5633
Fascinating, thank you for making these videos, love your page keep
@octo4012
Gonna fill in some people on the replies too but for anyone wondering they did reach Australia, they just didn’t settle there. In the historic era people from Sulawesi in Indonesia would often travel to northern Australia to fish for sea cucumbers and would sometimes bring aboriginal people back with them to Indonesia. For earlier contact, there’s a lot of evidence that people in northern Australia got austronesian technology, including outrigger canoes, certain styles of fish hooks, and pottery which was recently found on Lizard island, though this was probably via Papuans who got it from the Austronesians. It’s also often been suggested that dingos came from austronesian dogs, but I’ve seen some dating that would put the arrival of dingos a few thousand years before austronesians. A neat recent genetic study also finally proved that Polynesians had contact with indigenous South Americans around 1150 CE
@akhsinilhami2418
Our ancestors are seafarers, or something like that
@kristidewolf1485
Next, can you do the expansion/exploration of Tamil peoples, please?
@hopewell2191
So why are they MAD AT GAS CARS😂😂😂?
@chidubememma-ugwuoke9660
I’m a simple man. I see Madagascar 🇲🇬& i click😭😭 especially if its from Geography Now the absolute 🐐
@depreciatingasset
How come they missed Australia? I read about it but forgot They never crossed that imaginary line either way neither did animal or plant species although they're close
@YOUKNOWlMHERE
My grandfather always tell me before the Europe Sailor ,our ancestors already Exploring the SEA , our ancestors is a sailor , Javanese people, Indonesia 🇮🇩❤
@borneandayak6725
Yes, the Malagasy are belong to the Barito language, particularly the Ma'anyan Dayak branch. They established one of the oldest kingdom in Borneo, became maritime superpower in the past. But later, their thalassocracy kingdom, Nansarunai was destroyed by Majapahit.
@ariarivendelchannel
Nenek moyangku seorang pelaut / my ancestor is a sailor
@parmaxolotl
Iirc they planned the trip too. In ancient times, Malays traded goods across the Indian ocean, and some of them decided to settle down on this island near Africa, and coordinated a few migration waves.
@joannasthings
iirc, there are some recent studies that may indicate that the ma'anyan sailed around the coasts of the Indian ocean (through the strait of malacca, past modern day Burma, India, and Sri Lanka, perhaps even stopping near the Arabian peninsula) and then arrived in Madagascar after that. The greatest seafarers in all of human history right there. Mahal na!
@konstantinpobedonotsev5589