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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.
in phonotactic freedom. Whereas the latter languages permit a wide variety and high frequency of heterorganic consonant clusters with non-reduplicated roots, in non-borrowed roots Malay allows only the invariant heterorganic sequences (1) y + s, (2) y + 1 and (3) r + consonant.
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Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology
- Alexander Adelaar
evidence in support of the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian hypothe-sis, (2) to argue for the reality of a Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup, which includes certain of the previously unclassified languages of the Bomberai Peninsula, and (3) to examine the internal subgrouping of the CMP languages.
Malay is one of the major languages in the world, but there has been relatively little detailed research on its phonetics. This Element provides an overview of existing descriptions of the pronunciation of Standard Malay before briefly considering the pronunciation of some dialects of Malay.
1. Polynesian languages and their contributions to theoretical linguistics. Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam. 1.1 Overview. This volume presents research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody based on a range of Polynesian languages.
The Malayo-Polynesian (MP) hypothesis (that all extra-Formosan languages belong to a single first-order An subgroup, while the Formosan languages constitute one or more first-order subgroups) rests on the following phonological (and some non-phonological) innovations:... (Ross 1 992:25)
