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- The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages (CMP) 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 (excepting the Papuan languages of Timor and nearby islands), but with the Bima language extending to the eastern half of Sumbawa Island in the province of...
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The Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993).
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Malayo-Polynesian languages with more than five million speakers are: Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog, Malagasy, Malay, Cebuano, Madurese, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, and Minangkabau.
The most prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Hawaiian. The ancestors of modern Polynesians were Lapita navigators, who settled in the Tonga and Samoa areas about 3,000 years ago.
The Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993). [1]
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.
Sep 6, 1999 · Malayo-Polynesian is split into Central, Eastern, and Western branches, with Central and Eastern linked at an intermediate node. Central Malayo-Polynesian is spoken mainly in eastern Indonesia (Benedict 1990) and consists of 149 languages (SIL 1996).
May 6, 2019 · Third, in Figure 2, the CEMP node splits into two groups: Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) languages and Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (EMP). For over 30 years, it has been known that for neither of these groups can a single ancestor language be established (Ross, 1995 ; Adelaar 2005; Ross, 2008 ).
