 
 <prompt> text: ```Di Austronesian languages na one language family wey dey spread well well for Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and di islands for di Pacific Ocean, with some members for continental Asia. Austronesian languages dey spoken by about 386 million people, wey make am di fifth-largest language family by number of speakers, after only di Indo-European languages, di Sino-Tibetan languages, di Niger-Congo languages, and di Afroasiatic languages. E dey on di same level with Indo-European, Niger-Congo, and Afroasiatic as one of di well-established language families. Major Austronesian languages wey get plenty speakers na Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, and Filipino (Tagalog). Di family get 1,257 languages, wey be di second most for any language family.

Similarities between di languages wey dem dey speak for di Malay Archipelago and di Pacific Ocean first dey noticed for 1706 by di Dutch scholar Adriaan Reland. For di 19th century, researchers (e.g. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Herman van der Tuuk) start to apply di comparative method to di Austronesian languages, but di first comprehensive and extensive study on di phonological history of di Austronesian language family wey include reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian lexicon na di German linguist Otto Dempwolff. Di term Austronesian itself na Wilhelm Schmidt (German "austronesisch") wey come from Latin "auster" "south wind" plus Greek "nêsos" "island". Di family get name wey fit am well, as di majority of Austronesian languages dey spoken for islands: only few languages, like Malay and di Chamic languages, dey indigenous to mainland Asia. Many Austronesian languages get very few speakers, but di major Austronesian languages dey spoken by tens of millions of people and one Austronesian language, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), dey spoken by 250 million people, wey make am di 8th most spoken language for di world. Approximately twenty Austronesian languages dey official for their respective countries (see di list of major and official Austronesian languages).

Answer di following questions:
1. When similarities between di languages first dey noticed?
2. By who?
3. Where di languages dey spoken?
4. Any members for Asia?
5. How many?
6. How many people dey speak Austronesian?
7. E be di largest spoken language?
8. Which languages dey make up di top 4?
9. How many languages di family get?
10. E be di 3rd most?
11. Where e dey stand?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. 1706
2. Dutch scholar Adriaan Reland
3. Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean
4. Yes
5. small small
6. about 386 million people
7. fifth-largest
8. Indo-European languages, the Sino-Tibetan languages, the Niger-Congo languages, and the Afroasiatic languages.
9. 1,257
10. no
11. second most``` 