ngeliat kolom komentar banyak yang baru sadar bahwa Indonesia dan Maori itu serumpun sebenarnya lumayan bikin sedih, kita kurang peduli dengan sejarah dan asal usul kita. pengetahuan dan wawasan tentang jati diri dan rumpun bahasa kayak gini seharusnya kita udah tau sejak dini. saya pun baru ngeh tentang rumpun austronesia 3 tahun lalu setelah ngobrol tentang sejarah dengan teman dari Turki. Orang-orang Turki sejak dini sudah diberi tahu tentang hal-hal mendasar kayak gini, semua orang turki sepakat bahwa mereka serumpun dengan Mongolia, Asia Tengah dan Korea sementara kebanyakan orang-orang Indonesia pengetahuan tentang rumpun bahasanya cuma sebatas Malaysia dan negara-negara Melayu, bahkan banyak yang ga tau kalau orang Indonesia dan Filipina itu saudara dekat. malah sebagian dari kita berpikir akar Indonesia itu berasal dari India atau Cina, padahal cuma akulturasi / pengaruh saja. Semoga makin banyak yang bikin video kayak gini dan makin banyak yang tau, sayangnya video kayak gini viewers mentok cuma belasan ribu :(

I'm from ambon and when I watched Moana with my dad he said they sound like they're speaking "bahasa tana" which is our true language before colonization, so there's definitely a cultural connection between maori and indonesian, specifically the eastern islands.

Aku sangat menyesal ketika kuliah dulu malah milih Fakultas Ekonomi. Inilah passionku sebenarnya, Antropologi. Segala searching-ku di Google itu tentang hubungan budaya dan Antropologi..

Proud Austronesian

wow bahasa maori sama persis sama bahasa kami orang maluku (tahi dua toru faa lima) sama persis Maluku lease island (Saparua)

This is amazing, I am Maluku, we are a melanesian mixed island nation within the territory of Indonesia. I never knew that Maori sounds so much like the Maluku language and dialect.

Kita satu rumpun dari ujung barat madagaskar sampai timur rapa nui (chile). Dari utara taiwan, sampai selatan new zeland. Nenek moyangku seorang pelaut 👍👍

I'm from the Philippines, Tagalog and Bisaya and we share so many similarities! so fascinating!

Telinga is ear in Tongan too.

Im his friend from Medan ahha... Thank you Brent. Makasih sudah sebut nama saya..

I used to live in Indonesia and picked up the language too. You'll find that Batak people, their language is similar to Maori.

Bahasa Austronesia itu. Baru tau ya?! Kita punya nenek moyang yang sama (from Native Taiwan) dri Madagaskar sampai ke new Zealand. Dan kita punya kesamaan dari pola Gigi (Sundadont) dan Genetik.

Love to all Malayo-Polynesian brothers and sisters, from Malaysia

menurutku, mereka memang sepupu, fiji, pacific island, tonga kingdom, samoan, bahasa mereka hampir mirip, bhkan garis wajah mrka sangat mirip wilayah timur indo, flores, maluku, sumba dll ~

In Minahasa culture we have a proverb, which if you go there above our airport it’s written, and the proverb is “Sitou, Timou, Tumou, Tou” which roughly translates to “Man was created to educate other men on how to be men”. When he said the maori proverb which reminded me of this, you see in Minahasa culture we have something that’s deeply ingrained in our culture, which is acceptance. We like to say “torang samua basaudara” or “we’re all family” which ties in to the proverb which my dad explained to me means that everyone must care for each other.

We are proud austronesians! CHamoru from Guahan here

They are both malayo-polynesian languages in the wider austronesian language family. That originated from Taiwan and spread across the Philippines, Indonesia and then eventually into the Pacific Islands

Our son married an Indonesian girl. I wondered why they got on so well. You would think that they were related some how. Another son married an Egyptian girl, same scenario.

Nose kissing/cium hidung bukan cuma di Kalimantan. Di NTT juga saya pernah merasakannya. Menarik juga ya tahu bahwa ada banyak kemiripan Indonesia dengan Maori.

That's so cool... I never knew that there were so many similarities in the two languages. Just goes to show how far humans have migrated! Cool video!

Wow interesting. I always thought Indonesians even looked like us Maori

Fakta Indonesia adalah juga bagian dari Pasifik sering diabaikan.. Padahal ini adalah sebagian dari jati diri bangsa Indonesia. Pacific Exposition di Auckland pada bulan Juli mendatang akan menjadi gong dialog budaya dan ekonomi antara Indonesia dengan negara-negara Pasifik.

thanks for checking my channel out sasha :D - new supporter her to my fellow indo abroad :) true that we do tend have big families i guess its interesting that the maori also is similar in that way.

The similarities that you noticed between both languages are similar to ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i as well.😊

I visited my uncle in the Philippines. He was like 80 years old. He greeted me for the first time and he pulled me in, forehead to forehead, and he breathed in deeply. I thought about it after hearing about your "honi" (sp?). Sadly, I don't even know what this is called. My mother has said that the older people still do that but even she doesn't know much about it.

We are Austronesian people, Indonesians, Malay, Phillipines, Aboriginal Taiwanese, Madagascar, Papua, Maori, Hawaii, Micronesia and polynesia and more!

Maori and Indonesia are both AUSTRONESIAN thats why there are some similarities

I lived in malaysia for 5 years in kelantan state and i found people of kelantan are more taller and stronger and more brown skin as maori or samoan than other part of malaysia and when you see those people for the first time you think they are pacific islands people ✌

There is definitely a connection if you look at the Austronesian language family. Also, I remember reading that atua means spirit in Polynesian languages and Tuan means God in Indonesian.

Sebenarnya gak mengherankan sama sekali. Orang-orang asli indonesia, malaysia, filipina, thailand selatan, micronesia, polynesia, new zealand, bahkan sampai hawai dan madagaskar di afrika punya nenek moyang yang sama yaitu bangsa austronesia. Nenek moyang kita dulunya berasal dari taiwan dan sekitar 3000 tahun lalu mulai berlayar mengkoloni kepulauan-kepulauan di samudera pasifik dan hindia. Daerah terakhir yang dikoloni bangsa austronesia adalah madagaskar yang dikoloni oleh para pelaut banjar, melayu, jawa, dan bugis pada jaman kerajaan sriwijaya. Itulah kenapa ada lagu anak-anak "nenek moyangku seorang pelaut". Bukan karena para pendahulu kita banyak yang jadi nelayan. Tapi karena sejak ribuan tahun lalu mereka adalah ahli navigasi dan pembuat kapal ulung yang berhasil menjelajah hampir semua pulau yang terbentang dari hawai hingga madagaskar dan new zealand sampai filipina. Sayang buku sejarah di indo hanya fokus membahas sejarah jaman kolonial dan gak pernah menyinggung tentang kejayaan maritim bangsa austronesia.

Also similar to Samoan language

When I hear Maori intonation when speaking, I think it's similar to some eastern part of Indonesian

Im so proud of this similarities, we have a strong connection

Both languages belong to two different sub-groups of Austronesian languages, so a common linguistic ancestry but different ethnicities and history. Good episode, Sasha.

Indonesia and Malaysia were originally populated by Polynesian peoples. If u go there and see the natives they look polynesian. All the Pacific ring of fire was polynesian thousands of years ago including Japan Chile California. These sea farming people were all over the Pacific ocean

Koe = ko ( Papuanese dialects) = you Ko (Biak language means = us) Ia = I (Biaknese - papua) = he, she Manu = Man (Biaknese- Papua)= bird, human, Man Manu same in Biak language manu, menui,manus, or mnu means = village Rongo = rower (Biaknese- papua) = to hear Wai = waier, war (Biaknese -papua) = water Wai (in Biak language wai means = canoe ) Tau =taun (Biaknese)= Year Rangi= Nangi (Biaknese)= sky or heaven Au = Aya (Biaknese) = i, me Au in Biak language means you Arero = kaprer (biaknese) = lidah Kutu = uk Haeremai = rarama (Biaknese)= datang Hoko = Kobs (Biaknese)= membeli Hoou = baboou, babo (Biaknese) = baru I = i , ro ( Biaknese)= di I raro = ro sop i (Biaknese)= di bawah I roto = ro dor i (Biaknese)= di dalam I runga = ro bo i (Biaknese)= di atas Ika = in, ine (Biaknese)= ikan Inu = inem (Biaknese)= minum Me = Ma (Biaknese) = dan Niho = nakor (Biaknese) = gigi Mataku = makako (Biaknese) = takut Mate = mar (Biaknese)= mati Matua = amam, kamam (Biaknese) = ayah/ bapa Katoa = katorang samua (Papua dialek) = semua Noho = Kondo (Biaknese) = duduk Peehea = bee (Biaknese) = bagaimana? Poo = Roob (Biaknese) = malam Raa = Ras (Biaknese) = hari Rau = Ram (Biaknese) = daun Teenei = Ine, inei (Biaknese) = ini Tika = kaku (Biaknese) = benar Upoko = Bokor, bukor (Biaknese) = kepala Waha = Swadon (Biaknese)= mulut Wahine = vine, vin, vavine (Biaknese)= wanita Whakaimaa = Mai (Biaknese) = malu Whakaaro = kara (Biaknese) = pikir Number Rua = Suru (Biaknese)= 2 Toru = Kyor (Biaknese)= 3 Rima = Rim (Biaknese) = 5 Ono = Onem (Biaknese)= 6 Whitu = Fik (Biaknese)= 7 Waru = war (Biaknese)= 8 Iwa = Siw (Biaknese)= 9 Ngahuru = Samfur, Samfuru (Biaknese)= 10 Terima kasih (kasumasa)

Beautiful video. Proves how we are more alike than we are different. ❤️

I love the whole comment section🥰 really open up my mind, I learn so many things only from a youtube channel

saya tinggal di NZ dari 1992 sampai 2001. banyak saya temukan kata-kata yg sama. sekarang saya dosen linguistik di Bali.

Really enjoyed this video! Very informative content. And I like how you add popping texts to highlight the words 😍 it makes the video even more interesting.

Polynesia Melanesia Austronesia Aeroasia Micronesia ...dan apalah itu namanya, semua berawal dari satu peradaban ... peradaban yang hanya bisa bersatu kembali dalam satu kata .... "KASIH".

akhirnya menemukan juga video tentang persamaan maori dan Indonesia ! (:

ma' tua (bajau language) in sabah (northern borneo) refers to grandmother

Wow, it is unheard of about these similarities, it's good to know.

Maori kissing nose tradition is same like savunesse people of timor region, also the numeric number resemble the same phonem

Some of the Maori's language spoken here is similar to East Timor's language, like the numerals: ida, rua, tolu, hat, lima, nen, hitu, ualu, sia, sanulu. Ikan- fish; tuan- old; kutun-lice and also family importance and welcoming of people. There is certainly connection between the South East Asia and Pacific Island people.

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Di indonesia ada proverb dalam bahasa Jawa yg mirip, Mangan ora Mangan sing penting ngumpul, kurang lebih artinya (bisa/ada) makan atau tidak (bisa/ada) makan yang penting (bisa) berkumpul (bersama keluarga). Di Indonesia juga disebutkan harta yang paling berharga adalah keluarga (lagu keluarga cemara) :) yeah, i also think we have the same root. Hello cousin~! ^^

What a beautiful video. I have subscribed to your channel, best of success!

Amazing. I from Indonesia. And Maori people always caught my interest. Now I found out the language from both nation are bit similar💪🏼💪🏼😁

im an australian who speaks indonesian, and also happens to be a fan of the artist Fiji, through whom i discovered the traditional song E Papa. when i looked up the translation of the lyrics i noticed the words "mate" = die (mati in Indonesian) and "roimata" = tears (air mata in Indonesian). which brought me to your video looking for more examples! i think this is so cool. language is fascinating.

This is insightful. Makes me want to move to New Zealand even more. 😅

Your video is visually pleasing,thumbs up

"tetangga" is the Indonesian word for "neighbor", maybe it's connected to the Maori word "tatanga" (i kinda noticed from "manaki-tatanga") which i believe it means "your fellow around you"?

Sangat menarik topiknya...bahasa & kebudayaan !

Yes, we are austronesian...similar language...similar culture...the colonial separate us sadly

keren kak sasha semakin hari om brent makin keren dalam bicara bahasa indonesia btw kita satu grup di grup wa indo-nz education group

In Kuanua (Rabaul, Papua New Guinea) for 'ear' we say 'Talingana'...the Torres Strait Islanders (Australia) say 'Talinga' for 'ear'....I'm assuming the Pacific versions of the similar words are older, because the Mongolian word for 'ear' is 'chikh'

Great video! Anyway love your accent

You wanna bridge indonesia and maori? Go to philippines, the way we speak is L and R are interchangeable, Rima and Lima is same its up to you what you preffer,

In Old Javanese, two is rwa and then became ro, roro and the modern form is loro

Maybe "manaakitanga" equals to the spirit of "gotong royong" in Indonesia

How Far I'll Go (Moana's song) in Te Reo Maori is one of my favorite ☺️😁 Bagus suara nya, cocok sama Moana 😁

Saya keturunan Indonesia campur dengan Belanda jadi orang Indo. Tinggal di Negri Belanda. Orang tua saya dari Surabaya. Isteri saya orang Selandia Baru. Ayahnya imigran Belanda tapi nikah orang Maori. Artinya saya setengah Indonesia dan Isteriku part Maori. We have so many things in common terutama how we feel and understand each other without always using language for that,. Salam dari Negri Belanda

Sepertinya bahasa maori hampir mirip Bahasa Dayak (Siang) atau bisa dikatakan peralihannya(Tengah-tengah) Indonesia = Dayak Siang= Maori Dengan catatan bahasa Siang huruf "L" dibaca antara "R" dan "L" jadi bukan "R" lidah Indonesia atau "L", tapi saat mengucapkannya, lidah dihempaskan ke langit-langit mulut, sehingga mncul suara unik. A dalam bahasa indonesia biasanya akan menjadi O dalam Bahasa Dayak Siang Telinga = Tolinga = Taringa Dua =Duo =Rua Tiga =Tolu =Tolu Lima =Limo =Rima Akar =Akat =aka Buah =bua =hua Ayam =Manuk (ayam jantan)= manu Bahasa dayak Lainnya Dayak Ngaju = Maori = Indonesia Taling =Taringa =Telinga Atei = Ate = Hati Matei = Mate = Mati

Bagus channel nya nih. Keren produksinya.

Menurut Marlon, adanya hubungan kekerabatan antara masyarakat tradisional Maluku dan Suku Maori dapat terlihat dari bahasa tradisional keduanya yang hampir mirip, selain itu juga budaya dan adat istiadat pun hampir serupa. "Budayanya hampir mirip, bisa terlihat dari misalnya tradisi tato, rumah pangggung dan potong kepala untuk acara adat," katanya. Lebih lanjut ia mengatakan dalam peta sebaran bahasa, proses migrasi awal manusia Austronesia ke Indonesia dimulai dari Taiwan menuju Filipina, Sulawesi Utara, kemudian ke Maluku hingga daerah-daerah pasifik lainnya, termasuk Selandia Baru. Dibandingkan dengan Selandia Baru, pengaruh Austronesia masuk lebih awal di Maluku yakni 1.200 sebelum Masehi, sedangkan Maori baru pada 800 Masehi. "Jejak sejarah penutur bahasa Austronesia dimulai dari Taiwan lalu ke Maluku dan Selandia Baru juga, inilah yang memungkinkan kenapa bahasa tradisional Maluku dan Maori memiliki kesamaan," katanya. Marlon menjelaskan, sejauh ini penemuan jejak budaya neolitik yang identik dengan proses migrasi penutur bahasa Austronesia untuk wilayah Maluku, yang paling kuat berada di Pulau Ay, Kepulauan Banda, Kabupaten Maluku Tengah. Pada 1998 ditemukan fragmen tembikar poles merah dan obsidian khas dengan budaya neolitikum di daerah tersebut. "Dari penanggalan tembikar itu berasal dari 3.200 tahun lalu," ujarnya.

Karonese Language (Bahasa Batak Karo/Cakap Karo) Bahasa yg mirip mirip Bahasa Karo/Satu Famili 1. Pakpak 2. Singkil (Aceh) 3. Alas (Aceh) 4. Kluet (Aceh) 5: Gayo (Aceh) Nomor: 1: Sada 2: Dua 3: Telu (Huruf E dibaca seperti huruf E pada kata "bErani" 4: Empat 5: Lima 6: Enem (Huruf E dibaca seperti huruf E pada kata "bErani" 7: Pitu 8: Waluh 9: Siwah 10: Sepuluh 11: Sepuluh sada 12: Sepuluh dua 13: Sepuluh telu 14: Sepuluh empat 15: Sepuluh lima 16: Sepluluh enem 17: Sepuluh pitu 18: Sepuluh waluh 19: Sepuluh siwah 20: Dua Puluh Aku: Aku Kamu: Kam (sopan)/ Ko (tidak sopan) DIa: ia Anak Lelaki: Anak Perana Anak Perempuan: Singuda nguda Tidak: La/Labo Iya: Uway (Uwe) Sudah: Enggo ((Huruf E dibaca seperti huruf E pada kata "bErani") Makan: Man Ayam: Manuk/burung Ikan: Ikan Ayah: Bapa Ibu: Nande/Nde langit: langit kutu: kutu Pergi: Lawes ((Huruf E dibaca seperti huruf E pada kata "bErani") "Enggo kam man" : "Sudah Kamu makan" "Lawes Aku Ku Tiga Binanga" atau "Aku Lawes ku Tiga Binanga: "Aku Pergi ke Pasar Binanga/Tiga Binanga

Ma- is a prefix indicating an achieved state so MaTUA = has become Tua (elder) you also have the word Atua = Tuan another one is MaTAKU (scare, afraid) which links to the Bahasa term Takut

Really had. Great time in new zealand. Spend 20days in newzealand and really love the culture and the sight. Really want to go back to newzealand....

Amazing in bisaya philippines its duha and lima.

Belajar berbagai bahasa memang sangat menyenangkan ya....

Hi Kiwindo! Aku Regina, suka sekali sama video kamu. Btw, I'm going to NZ in Nov mungkin kita bisa ketemuan 😁

I'm ilocano/igorot (Kananaey) back home when the elders greet you they grab your head and breathe in similarly like the Hongi. and also where my father is from they have traditional tattoo that is trying to be revived lost due to colonization called batak or batek depending what tribe this is given to person if they removed enemy warrior head from another tribe or was given to person like a right of passage .......it said that ourà ancestors came from Taiwan and if you look at the aboriginal people of Taiwan we have so much we share in culture and language .

Woah, i am happy that i found this video

Indonesian and Maori language are classified as Austronesian languages, and it means that Indonesian and Maori people are actually related, share the same Austronesian root

Indonesian "ikan" Maori "ika" Tahitian "i'a"

Because Austronesian and Polynesian are related, they came from a single parent ages ago. They diverged, colonised and inhabited places as far as Madagascar in the west and Hawaii in the east.

It's a big surprise for new as Indonesian 😉

Interisting👍 Long Live Austronesia (Rumpun Bahasa) ✊✊🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

#AustronesianPower

seem like pasific ppl is Nusantara ppl who looking for fish to far :-D n found good place to stay there

Mīharo, kōrua! Interesting!

English: God Lampung: Tuan Pajoh Ternate: Tuan Tabona Tidore: Tuan Kodoli Ambonese Malay: Tuhan Makassarese (South Sulawesi): Tau Tungnga Toraja (South Sulawesi): Puang Matua Acehnese (Aceh): Tuhan Maori (New Zealand): Atua Rotuman (Rotuma Island, Fiji): Atua Tahitian (French Polynesia): Atua Hawaiian (Hawaii, USA): Akua Marquesan (Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia): Atua Samoan (Samoa): Atua Tongan (Tonga): Atua Niuean (Niue): Atua Cook Islands Maori (Cook Islands): Atua Tuvaluan (Tuvalu): Atua Māori (an indigenous language of Taiwan): Tua Rotuman (an Austronesian language): Atua Fijian (an Austronesian language): Kalou Māori (an indigenous language of the Philippines): Tawo Chamorro (an Austronesian language spoken in the Mariana Islands): Atua In Leti (Leti dialect): Tuan In Ambonese Malay: Tuhan In Ternatean: Tuhina In Sula: Atua

Wow... I speak tetum a language spoken in East Timor and the numbers are very similar to Maori. We say 1. ida 2. rua 3. tolu 4. ha'at 5. lima

great video (Y)

This is also why I believe that Bahasa can be an international language. Because somehow Bahasa is easier than other international language tho. We have no tenses whatsoever for the sentence structure. Eventho Bahasa's vocabulary is pretty similar w/ English, most vocabs aren't that difficult to say/spell, and we don't waste letters or words when we talk daily, y'know. Like... For English some words has letters that actually aren't that necessary when it comes to "how we read it". I mean.. Sometimes I used to say... "just... Why? You have"b" in the word of "debt" yet you read it "det"...😑 Just.... Why... Well it's language, I don't blame nobody, just confusion in my early English learning process.. 😅 And it's also known that Indonesia is a nation with the best pronunciation of foreign languages. Meaning, Indonesians can adapt pretty good w/ foreign language bcuz we have more flexible tongue, some foreigners can't hear no accent from Indonesian when they talk English, apparently we are able to speak the English words clearly. Meanings, all the exercise this tongue had done by speaking Bahasa, somehow, made our tongue... More flexible..? 😅😂🤣 oh well. Hope yall get what I meant..

I thought i was the only indonesian who picked up on this good to know im not the only one

Btw the easter islanders also has language that has similar words among us (malay and maorian)...

Salam dari newmarket sashaa... Senang bisa tinggal di new zealand..

English - Tagalog - Cebuano - Indonesian - Maori he/she - siya - siya - dia - ia bird - ibon(manok for chicken) - langgam(manok for chicken) - manuk - manu two - dalawa - duha - dua - rua three - tatlo - tulo - tolu - toru.. etc.....

Buginese language and Maori similiar too

One thing ive seen from a fire dancer is that the word for fire is similar in many austrnesian alnguages, Ahi/Api/Afi

greetings from Malaysia.

Salam dari Indonesia ! We are all one

Are we distant cousins.. in short yes. We are Austronesians! Spread from Madagascar, southern Taiwan to Hawaii and easter island.

I noticed that most of the letter "L" in bahasa Indonesia word ussually changed to "R" in Maori language, but I'm not that sure that it is used in all similar word 😊

I was fluent in Te Reo when I was younger, however, my whanau and I left for Australia, so I didn’t really keep on top of it. At school they taught Bahasa, I learnt for 7 years ... how did I not pick up on these similarities? Feeling very dumb!

Exactly we are cousin, i knew it. Kita mirip banget dengan mereka

Kiwi in Indonesia: The consensus seems to be that the Austronesian languages arose in Taiwan, and from there spread south through the Philippines and the Malay archipelago, west to Madagascar, and from islands east of Papua New Guinea across the Pacific as far as Easter Island, Hawaii and New Zealand. Hence nine of the ten branches of Austronesian are found only in Taiwan, whereas the tenth group stretches across a vast area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and Maori and Hawaiian are closely related despite being separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Some cognates I have noted between Indonesian (or other Indonesian languages) and Te Reo Māori: apa (Batak: aha) aha what api ahi fire awan ao cloud balai whare public hall/house batu kowhatu stone benua whenua continent/land buah hua fruit bukit puke hill bulu huru hair dengar/rongo hear goar (Batak) ingoa name hati (Batak: ate-ate) ate liver hidung ihu nose hidup (Javanese: urip) ma-uri > mauri life/life force hujan (Batak: hudan) ua rain ikan ika fish ipon (Batak) niho tooth jalan (Batak: dalan) ara road ke ki to kulit kiri skin kutu kutu flea/louse langit rangi sky manuk (Javanese) manu bird mari mai (come) here/hither mata mata eye mati (Batak: mate) mate dead minum (Batak: inum) inu(mia) drink nyamuk namu mosquito/sandfly panas ma-hana > mahana hot/warm pilih whiri choose susu susu (Samoan) milk tahun tau year takut ma-taku > mataku be afraid tangis tangi (passive: tangihia) weep tasik/tai sea telinga taringa ear tuli turi deaf se- he one/a satu (Batak: sada) tahi one dua rua two tiga (Batak: tolu) toru three empat (Batak: opat) wha four lima rima five enam (Batak: onom) ono six tujuh (Batak: pitu) whitu seven delapan (Batak: ualu) waru eight sembilan (Batak: sia) iwa nine sepuluh (Batak: sampulu) tekau (Samoan: sefulu) ten ratus rau (100) aku (Batak: au) au, ahau I kau (Javanese kowe) koe you dia/ia ia s/he kami maua/matou we (exclusive) kita taua/tatou we (inclusive) -ku taku/aku my -nya (Batak: na) tana/ana his/her There are other cognates, some quite unexpected and not very obvious. For example Indonesian leher (neck) is apparently cognate with Maori reo (language). Hutan (forest) is cognate with uta (inland) and tengah (central) with tonga (south). Also air and wai (water) from a proto-Austronesian *wa(h)ir. I wonder if there is a distant connection to Proto-Indo-European there- but that's speculative.