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===Voice system===
The Austronesian languages of [[Taiwan]], [[Borneo]], [[Madagascar]] and the [[Philippines]] are also well known for their unusual [[morphosyntactic alignment]], which is known as the [[Austronesian alignment]]. This alignment was also present in the Proto-Austronesian language. Unlike Proto-Austronesian, however, Proto-Oceanic syntax does not make use of the focus morphology present in Austronesian-aligned languages such as the [[Philippine languages]]. In the [[Polynesian languages]], verbal morphology is relatively simple, while the main unit in a sentence is the phrase rather than the word.
Below is a table of John Wolff's Proto-Austronesian voice system from Blust (2009:433). Wolff's "four-voice" system was derived from evidence in various Formosan and Philippine languages.
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