Taiwan

New Zealand's Māori did not come from Australia but descend from people who left Taiwan. By canoe through the Philippines and Papua, they reached New Zealand around 1200–1300 CE. Before their arrival, the islands had no humans—and no mammals at all.

A Creole language based on Japanese language exists in Yilan County, Taiwan. During Japan's colonial rule, indigenous tribes speaking different languages communicated through Japanese, creating a new language reported to academia only in 2007. About 2,000-3,000 people still speak it.