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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan, as well as the Yami language on Taiwan's Orchid Island.
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Malayo-Polynesian consists of a large number of small local...
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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. Proto-Oceanic. Proto-Central...
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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 ...
Outer Malayo-Polynesian Philippines 2. Reid is not explicit in defining “northern Philippines.” In one place (Reid 1982:204), he says, “The position of the northern languages of the Philippines, in particular the Cordilleran group vis-a-vis the languages in the central and southern areas of the Philippines has never to my
Jan 23, 2009 · The Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and pre-Polynesian branches were longer than 81 and 85%, respectively, of a random sample of branches from the overall branch-length distribution . A rank-sum test suggests a low probability ( P = 0.057) of obtaining these ranks or higher by chance.
A 'linkage' is a group of languages that has. The rise and fall and rise and fall of Proto Malayo-Polynesian. 1 9 1. arisen as a result of dialect differentiation rather than abrupt separation (see Ross 1 995b:46), and he thinks that this is the model that best fits the Formosan situation:
