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Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan.
The Malayo-Sumbawan languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian languages that unites the Malayic and Chamic languages with the languages of Java and the western Lesser Sunda Islands (western Indonesia ), except for Javanese (Adelaar 2005). [1] [2] If valid, it would be the largest demonstrated family of Malayo-Polynesian outside Oceanic.
Waimoa or Waimaʼa is a language spoken by about 27,000 (2015 census) [1] people in northeast East Timor. Waimoa proper is reported to be mutually intelligible with neighboring Kairui and Midiki, which together have about 5,000 speakers. The classification of Waimoa is unclear. Structurally, it is Malayo-Polynesian.
As línguas malaio-polinésias formam um subgrupo das línguas austronésias, com aproximadamente 351 milhões de falantes, espalhados por todas as nações e ilhas do Sueste Asiático e do oceano Pacífico ( Polinésia ), com um número menor que habita a Ásia continental. O malgaxe é um membro isolado da família, falado na África, na ilha ...
Erromanga, a native language of southern Vanuatu, also has a rather small amount of consonant phonemes (13-15), but a complex range of consonant clusters. Given the data provided on the languages, I think it is fair to say that most Malayo-Polynesian (Indonesian, Philippine, Polynesian, etc.) languages have "simple" phonologies. However, there ...
grea1284. The Greater Central Philippine languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family, defined by the change of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *R to *g. They are spoken in the central and southern parts of the Philippines, eastern and western parts of Sabah, Malaysia and in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. [1]
The Manobo languages are a group of languages spoken in the Philippines. Their speakers are primarily located around Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao (presently called Soccsksargen) and Caraga regions where they are natively spoken. Some outlying groups make Manobo geographically discontiguous as other speakers can be located as far as the ...
