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The Central Malayo-Polynesian 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 ...
Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic. Central Pacific. East Fijian – Polynesian. Polynesian; Proto-language: Proto-Polynesian: Subdivisions: Tongic; Nuclear Polynesian; Glottolog: poly1242
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The Flores–Lembata languages are a group of related Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Lesser Sundas, on eastern Flores and small islands immediately east of Flores, Indonesia.
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The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. [1] The most prominent member is Malay, a pluricentric language given national status in Brunei and Singapore while also the basis for national standards Malaysian in Malaysia and Indonesian in Indonesia.
- Proto-Malayic
- Maritime Southeast Asia
- (disputed)
Malay ( / məˈleɪ / mə-LAY; [9] Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
CENTRAL AND CENTRAL-EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN ROBERT BLUST UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I 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
