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1 day ago · Western Malayo-Polynesian and Central Malayo-Polynesian are no longer accepted. The internal structure of the Austronesian languages is complex. The family consists of many similar and closely related languages with large numbers of dialect continua , making it difficult to recognize boundaries between branches.
May 5, 2024 · Malay, any member of an ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas. The Malays speak various dialects belonging to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages.
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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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May 13, 2024 · Malay language, member of the Western, or Indonesian, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family, spoken as a native language by more than 33,000,000 persons distributed over the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and the numerous smaller islands of the area, and widely used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a second language.
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2 days ago · Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch of the Austronesian language family. Polynesian languages show a considerable degree of similarity. The vowels are generally the same—a, e, i, o, and u, pronounced as in Italian, Spanish, and German—and the consonants are always followed by a vowel.
May 14, 2024 · Ulumandaʼ. Ulumandaʼ is a member of the Northern group of the South Sulawesi branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 30,000 people in West Sulawesi Province on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, particularly in the Majene Regency, and also in the Polewali Mandar and Mamuju regencies, in the south of West Sulawesi Province.
May 9, 2024 · 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.
