Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Malay-Polynesian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Malayo-Polynesia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
subgroup of languages of theAustronesian language family , mostly dispersed around the islands ofSoutheast Asia and thePacific Ocean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific
- adjective of or relating to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages
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Examples
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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
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Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Vietnam 2008
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VietnamVietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Languages 2008
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Research interests: Malayo-Polynesian linguistics, with particular emphasis on (more ...)
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Timor-LesteAustronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority
Ethnic groups 2008
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Ethnic groups: Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority
Timor-Leste 2008
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Vietnamese (official); English (increasingly favored as a second language); some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Vietnamese (official); English (increasingly favored as a second language); some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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About this work the American linguist Bloomfield wrote: “The second volume of Humboldt's great treatise founded the comparative grammar of the Malayo-Polynesian language family” (Bloomfield 1933, 19).
Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007
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Vietnamese (official); English (increasingly favored as a second language); some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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