Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
News - 14 October 2025
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
