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3 days ago · All Austronesian languages spoken outside the Taiwan mainland (including its offshore Yami language) belong to the Malayo-Polynesian (sometimes called Extra-Formosan) branch. Most Austronesian languages lack a long history of written attestation.
2 days ago · Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ⓘ), or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the indigenous language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
3 days ago · Teanu is a member of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages. It is spoken by about 800 people mainly on the island of Vanikoro, one of the Santa Cruz Islands in Temotu Province in the east of the Solomon Islands. There are also some Teanu speakers in Honoria, the capital of the Solomon Islands on Guadalcanal Island.
1 day ago · Codrington coined and used the term "Ocean" language family rather than "Malayo-Polynesian" in 1891, in opposition to the exclusion of Melanesian and Micronesian languages. This was adopted by Ray, who defined the "Oceanic" language family as encompassing the languages of Southeast Asia and Madagascar, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.
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1 day ago · Archaeological correlations for the dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, Western Micronesia and Madagascar. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar .
3 days ago · Languages of the Malayan Peoples – With the exception of the Negrito, all the languages of the Philippines belong to one great family, which has been called the “Malayo-Polynesian.” All are believed to be derived from one very ancient mother-tongue. It is astonishing how widely these Malayo-Polynesian tongues have spread.
8 hours ago · 馬來-玻里尼西亞語族 ，也简 馬來-多島語族 （Malayo-Polynesian languages）是 南島語系 以下的一個分支，使用人口約有3億8550萬。. 在過去馬來-玻里尼西亞語系有時候也被當作是南島語系的同義詞。. 馬來-玻里尼西亞語族的語言人口分佈很廣，散佈於 印度洋 、南 ...
