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  1. The Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) languages are located almost exclusively within Wallacea. Other language groups in Wallacea include the North Halmahera, Celebic, and South Sulawesi languages. In the original proposal, CEMP is divided into Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) and Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (EMP).

  2. Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are found throughout much of eastern Indonesia, including the Lesser Sunda Islands from Sumbawa through Timor, and most of the Moluccas. Many of the changes that define this linguistic group cover most of the languages but do not reach the geographic extremes, and the group ...

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  4. 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. apart from Palauan, Chamorro, and possibly Yapese, is justified by a set of ...

  5. The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are a proposed branch in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The 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 , but with the Bima language extending to the eastern half ...

  6. 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.

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