With over 1200 languages, Austronesian is the world’s second largest language family, spanning over half of the globe, from Madagascar in the west, through Southeast Asia and Melanesia, all the way out to Easter Island in the east. Among the Austronesian languages are some with many millions of speakers, such as Malay, Indonesian, Javanese and Tagalog, as well as numerous much smaller ones, and, unfortunately, many that are highly endangered.The International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics meets once every three years, bringing together researchers working on Austronesian languages in all areas of linguistics, synchronic and diachronic.