Malayo

The Dutch have three: that of Malayo, which is the principal one; another called Tacome, and another Tolecò, which is of little importance.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

Mr. Abidin carefully copied some Korean letters from a textbook onto the blackboard and asked his fourth-grade class what they spelled in their Cia-Cia tongue, a Malayo-Polynesian language related to others spoken across Indonesia.

To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009

Ethnic groups: Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority

Timor-Leste 2008

Timor-LesteAustronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority

Ethnic groups 2008

Research interests: Malayo-Polynesian linguistics, with particular emphasis on (more ...)

Why Bush cannot be counted out yet 2008

Related only by the tendency of Western historians to misunderstand Malayo-Polynesians on islands:

languagehat.com: IT'S NEVER THAT SIMPLE. 2005

It used to be considered Sino-Tibetan or possibly Tai; I don't know of serious suggestions that it's Austronesian/Malayo-Polynesian.

languagehat.com: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHINESE. 2004

Negeri, a Malay-Indonesian word for state, was particularly applicable to riverine or coastal principalities in the Malayo-Muslim world; derived from the Sanskrit term for “kingdom” or “capital, ” negeri continued to be used to define the state during this period in Southeast Asia.

4. Southeast Asia, c. 900-1557 2001

Tagálog, like all the Philippine languages about which anything is known, belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian family of speech, which embraces the idioms spoken on the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia, on the

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority

The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency