ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages
NOUN
- the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific
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- Timor-LesteAustronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority Ethnic groups
- 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
- Ethnic groups: Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority Timor-Leste
- Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) Vietnam
- They speak Western Cham, a Malayo-Polynesian language that uses an old Devanagari script; the alphabet in which many modern Indian languages are written.
- VietnamVietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) Languages
- What are the most inclusive linguistic groupings, the linguistic stocks, and what is the distribution of each (e.g., the Hamitic languages of northern Africa, the Bantu languages of the south; the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia)? Chapter 10. Language, Race and Culture
- 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
- 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
- Research interests: Malayo-Polynesian linguistics, with particular emphasis on (more ...) Why Bush cannot be counted out yet