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The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken in the Lesser Sunda and Maluku Islands of the Banda Sea, in an area corresponding closely to the Indonesian provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku and the nation of East Timor (excepting the Papuan languages of Timor and nearby islands), but with the Bima language extending to the eastern ...
The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast Asia ( Indonesia and the Philippine Archipelago) and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia in the areas near the Malay Peninsula, with Cambodia, Vietnam and the Chinese island Hainan as the northwest...
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[1] [2] Rumpun bahasa ini dituturkan di Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara dan Kepulauan Maluku di Laut Banda, di kawasan yang dekat dengan provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur dan Maluku di Indonesia, serta negara Timor Leste (kecuali rumpun bahasa Papua di Timor dan pulau-pulau terdekat), tetapi dekat dengan bahasa Bima meluas ke bagian timur Pulau Sumbawa, Nusa...
Austronesian languages, formerly Malayo-Polynesian languages, Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan languages ), and parts of mainland Southeast Asia and the island of Taiwan.
CENTRAL AND CENTRAL-EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN ROBERT BLUST UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I Evidence is presented for two large subgroups of Austronesian languages, Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP). CEMP, encompassing all of the approxi-mately 600 Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and the Pacific
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- Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
May 6, 2019 · It focuses on what is currently known about the dispersal history of the ~650 languages spoken in ISEA (Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste) that belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian and points out where the topology of the MP branch is agreed upon and where it is contested.
The numerically most important languages are Bima, Manggarai of western Flores, Uab Meto of West Timor, and Tetum, the national language of East Timor. The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are a proposed branch in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
