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4 days ago · All Austronesian languages spoken outside the Taiwan mainland (including its offshore Yami language) belong to the Malayo-Polynesian (sometimes called Extra-Formosan) branch. Most Austronesian languages lack a long history of written attestation.
4 days ago · Unlike most of its neighbors, Chamorro is not classified as a Micronesian or Polynesian language. Rather, like Palauan , it possibly constitutes an independent branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family .
5 days ago · The Malays speak various dialects belonging to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages. The Malays were once probably a people of coastal Borneo who expanded into Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula as a result of their trading and seafaring way of life.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · CHamoru is part of the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, and because CHamorus were the first people to arrive in the Pacific in long migrations, they were able to develop an isolated language, he...
4 days ago · A lingua franca of Northern Luzon and many parts of Central Luzon, it is spoken as a secondary language by more than two million people who are native speakers of Ibanag, Ivatan, Pangasinan, Sambal, and other local languages.
2 days ago · Within this diversity, a significant distinction is made for administrative purposes between indigenous peoples (including Malays), collectively called bumiputra, and immigrant populations (primarily Chinese and South Asians), called non-bumiputra. Ethnic groups and languages. See article: flag of Malaysia. Audio File: National anthem of Malaysia.
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3 days ago · Insular Southeast Asia contains a mixture of descendants of Proto-Malay (Nesiot) and Pareoean peoples who were influenced by Malayo-Polynesian and other groups. In addition, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese influences have affected the ethnic pattern of the islands.
