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The region is increasingly using this linguistic heritage to seek collaboration and partnership. Since Neolithic prehistory, Taiwan has ushered in the Austronesian languages that became about 1,200 in number spreading across most of Island Southeast Asia and Oceania for several thousand years, extending from origins, with examples found in the Formosan languages, through the Malayo-Polynesian languages of the islands of Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Melanesian islands, Polynesia, and across the Indian Ocean in Madagascar. These languages are valuable, regardless of their extent, influence, or number of speakers, as part of the basic richness of humanity—afarreaching interconnecting legacy of communication and worldviews. This article explores the concept of Taiwan and Austronesia—positioning historical roots and contemporary languages and cultures as valuable peaceful and sustainable development tools for island inter-connectivity across the Pacific that can be used to seek collaboration and partnership due to their association with heritage.  \nKeywords: Taiwan, Austronesian languages, Pacific, heritage connections, diplomacy, linkages of peoples  \n1 Gratitude is offered to Miranda Loney and Huiji Wang for their suggestions and copyediting skills and to the editorial staff at the International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, IJAPS.  \n2 The author, David Blundell (PhD. Anthropology, University of California) at National Chengchi University in Taipei, has contributed a number of publications on anthropology of Pacific languages including Austronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History, Ethnology, Prehistory (Revised Edition 2009) . His research collaborates with UC Berkeley, Electronic Cultural Atlas (ECAI, [see www.ecai.org](see www.ecai.org)), and his course offerings include anthropology of languages and cultures, belief systems, visual anthropology, cultural and ethnic structure of Taiwan, South Asia as a cultural area, symbolic anthropology, life histories, sociolinguistics, endangered languages, multilingual education, and international development.  \nRecently, Pacific islands regional integration is a peaceful process based on cross-cultural understanding among peoples of common language heritage. As Austronesian-speaking peoples are spread in communities across the entire Pacific region, the position of Taiwan in the Western Pacific is important to observe as an early linguistic factor in the dispersal of languages. In the past decade, Taiwan has harnessed its Austronesian heritage to foster peaceful alliances in the Pacific region. Politically, the People's Republic of China (PRC) claims Taiwan and tries to prevent Taiwanese self-determination by international political isolation (Crocombe 1999a, b) . Yet in 2002, through the initiatives of the Taiwan national government (Republic of China, ROC), Austronesian Forums were inaugurated in the Taiwan capital, Taipei, for enhancing cooperation among Austronesian-speaking countries including official representation from the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Islands and Palau.3  \nTaiwan associations are based on almost forgotten old connections with far-reaching Pacific linguistic origins. The present term Austronesia is based on linguistics and archaeology supporting the origins and existence of the Austronesian Language Family spread across the Pacific on modern Taiwan, Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Micronesia, Polynesia, the non-Papuan la","cbCaiq4Ggo0CUZ6P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq4Ggo0CUZ6P","pdf",507016,"English","# Abstract\n# Keywords\n# 1 Gratitude\n# Austronesia, Taiwan, and Pacific linguistic dispersal\n# Contemporary diplomacy and Austronesian Forums","[{\"question\":\"What does the article identify as Taiwan’s linguistic importance in the Pacific?\",\"answer\":\"Taiwan is presented as an early linguistic factor in the dispersal of Austronesian languages across the Pacific region.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article connect Austronesian heritage with diplomacy?\",\"answer\":\"It links shared linguistic and cultural heritage to peaceful collaboration and partnership among Pacific peoples and states.\"},{\"question\":\"What role did Austronesian Forums play according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"In 2002, Taiwan initiated Austronesian Forums in Taipei to enhance cooperation among Austronesian-speaking countries and representatives from multiple island nations.\"}]","TAIWAN AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE HERITAGE CONNECTING PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLES - DIPLOMACY AND VALUES | PDF",1791900258,6]