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The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers.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 ...
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The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken in the...
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The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family . There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. [1] While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle ...
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ( PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan, as well as the Yami language on Taiwan's Orchid Island.
No.Reconstruction LevelsCommon NameScientific Name8724PMPa cereal grass with edible seeds that are ...4343PMPa climbing plant11282PMP3686PMPa fernMay 21, 2018 · A number of the Native American languages…. 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 ...
Tongan language. Samoan language. (Show more) Polynesian languages, group of about 30 languages belonging to the Eastern, or Oceanic, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family and most closely related to the languages of Micronesia and Melanesia. Spoken by fewer than 1,000,000 persons spread across a large section of the ...
Other articles where Malayo-Polynesian languages is discussed: Austronesian languages: Early classification work: …credited with coining the name Malayo-Polynesian, although the word first appeared in print in an 1841 publication of his contemporary, the German linguist Franz Bopp. Several decades later Robert Codrington, a leading English scholar of the languages of Melanesia, objected to ...
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