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Meaning of "malayo-polynesian"

Malayo-Polynesian (adjective) - describing a large language family in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, which includes languages like Tagalog, Malay, and Hawaiian.
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  • A subgroup of languages of the Austronesian language family, mostly dispersed around the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

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Their language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian.
Malagasy is a Malayo-Polynesian language which has different but mutually.
Its original inhabitants were Malayo-Polynesian.
It is a Malayo-Polynesian language in the Timor group.
All other large groups within Malayo-Polynesian are controversial.
Komering is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Indonesia, in the southern part of Sumatra.
Rejangese language is not obviously close to other Malayo-Polynesian languages.
They belong to Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian family.
Indonesian grammar has many features in common with other Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Admixture occurred between this earlier group and the mainstream Malayo-Polynesian population.
The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages may form a linkage.
Some admixture may have occurred between this earlier group and the mainstream Malayo-Polynesian population.
It belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
The Alune speak a language of Malayo-Polynesian origin.

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Lamalera is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the island of Lembata, east of Flores in Indonesia.
The following pages link to Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Moriori is an extinct Malayo-Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori.
The first language is Malagasy which belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian.
They speak a dialect of the Malayo-Polynesian Mentawai language.
The people living there are predominantly from Austronesian subgroupings and correspondingly speak western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Based on its location, it was presumably Malayo-Polynesian of the Central Maluku branch.
Central Malayo-Polynesian languages Bima language, spoken on the eastern half of Sumbawa Island.
Rejang is not obviously close to other Malayo-Polynesian languages in Sumatra.
The Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages extend from the coasts of Halmahera across the Pacific.
The Raglai speak a language in the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
Ifugao or Batad is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the northern valleys of Ifugao, Philippines.
The Austronesian language family is formerly known as the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
They spoke the Cham language, a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family.
However, all Bunak settlements have Australian names, which would indicate an originally Malayo-Polynesian peoples settlement.
The Jarai language is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
Rejang may be a displaced Bornean Dayak language, and not Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian at all.
The majority of them belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian languages.
A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in New Zealand.
The language is surrounded by Malayo-Polynesian languages, like the Atoni and the Tetum.
Other languages are Austronesian or Malayo-Polynesian.
The Malagasy language is of Malayo-Polynesian origin and is generally spoken throughout the island.
The Cham language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian Group.
Lewotobi is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of Flores island in Indonesia.
Structurally, it is a highly isolating Malayo-Polynesian language.
Levuka is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the island of Lembata, east of Flores in Indonesia.
Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji.
The Lau language is a Malayo-Polynesian group language spoken on northeast Malaita of the Solomon Islands.
Linguistically, they are related to the Malayo-Polynesian language.
The Jarai language is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Jarai people of Vietnam and Cambodia.
It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Two main branches, the Formosan languages and the Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Phrases in Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Rather, like Palauan, it possibly constitutes an independent branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family.

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