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In linguistics, Melanesian is an obsolete term referring to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages apart from Polynesian and Micronesian. A typical classification of the Austronesian languages ca. 1970 would divide them into something like the ...
Rowing out from Tinutu' Village, a Sama village outside of Sulu where several Central Sinama dialects are spoken. Most notably Sinama Musu' and Sinama Silumpak. The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well-established group of languages spoken by the Sama-Bajau peoples ( sea gypsies) of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia .
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.
Balinese language speaker. Balinese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as Northern Nusa Penida, Western Lombok, Eastern Java, [3] Southern Sumatra, and Sulawesi. [4] Most Balinese speakers also use Indonesian. The 2000 national census recorded 3.3 million people speakers of Balinese, however the ...
Palauan: A Western Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, Palauan was spoken by 65% of the population in 2000. For a linguistic description of Palauan, see Josephs (1975, 1990, 1997, 1999); Flora (1974); Wilson (1972); Tkel (2000). It is currently the only national language of the country and is an official language alongside ...
Proto-Oceanic is a descendant of the Proto-Austronesian language (PAN), the common ancestor of the Austronesian languages. Proto-Oceanic was probably spoken around the late 3rd millennium BCE in the Bismarck Archipelago, east of Papua New Guinea. [1] Archaeologists and linguists currently agree that its community more or less coincides with the ...
Madurese is a Malayo-Sumbawan language of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, a branch of the larger Austronesian language family. Thus, despite apparent geographic spread, Madurese is more related to Balinese , Malay , Sasak and Sundanese , than it is to Javanese , the language used on the island of Java just across Madura Island.
