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Major languages. All major and official Austronesian languages belong to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Malayo-Polynesian languages with more than five million speakers are: Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog, Malagasy, Malay, Cebuano, Madurese, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, and Minangkabau .
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The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. 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
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As mentioned previously, some of the largest and best-known Austronesian languages—including Ilokano, Tagalog, Cebuano, Malay, Acehnese, Toba Batak, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese, Buginese, Makasarese, and Malagasy—are Western Malayo-Polynesian. Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP)
Aug 2, 1999 · The fourth group, referred to as proto-Malayo-Polynesian (3), was the mother language for all of the other surviving languages in the Austronesian Family (Dalby, 1998, p. 47). The first migration of the proto-Malayo-Polynesians (4), noted by Dalby, is thought to have occurred sometime between 3000 and 2000 BC, and to have gone first to the ...
May 21, 2018 · World Encyclopedia. Native American Languages. Malayo-Polynesian languages (məlā´ō-pŏlĬnē´zhən), sometimes also called Austronesian languages (ô´strōnē´zhən), family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madagascar; the Malay Peninsula [1]; Indonesia and New Guinea ...
