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Major languages. All major and official Austronesian languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Malayo-Polynesian languages with more than five million speakers are: Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog, Malagasy, Malay, Cebuano, Madurese, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, and Minangkabau .
There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle ), the other half – known as Polynesian outliers – are spoken in other parts of the Pacific: from Micronesia to atolls scattered in ...
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Sep 6, 1999 · MALAYO-POLYNESIAN (AUSTRONESIAN) INDONESIAN: MICRONESIAN: MELANESIAN: POLYNESIAN: Major. Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Tagalog, Visayan, Malagasy: Minor Languages: Minangkagau, Achinese, Batak, Buginese, Balinese, Panagasian, Igorot, Maranoa, Jaria, Rhode: Marshallese, Gilbertese, Chamorro, Panapean, Yapese, Palau ...
The Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) languages, also known as the Hesperonesian languages, are a paraphyletic grouping of Austronesian languages that includes those Malayo-Polynesian languages that do not belong to the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) branch.
As mentioned previously, some of the largest and best-known Austronesian languages—including Ilokano, Tagalog, Cebuano, Malay, Acehnese, Toba Batak, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese, Buginese, Makasarese, and Malagasy—are Western Malayo-Polynesian. Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP)
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May 21, 2018 · Malayo-Polynesian languages (məlā´ō-pŏlĬnē´zhən), sometimes also called Austronesian languages (ô´strōnē´zhən), family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madagascar; the Malay Peninsula [1]; Indonesia and New Guinea [2]; the Ph.
