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Meaning of "Malayo-Polynesian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

Malayo-Polynesian play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Malayo-Polynesian can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES MALAYO-POLYNESIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Malayo-Polynesian languages

The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian people of the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island of Madagascar located off the eastern cost of Africa in the Indian Ocean. The language family shows a strong influence of Sanskrit and particularly Arabic as the region has been a stronghold of Buddhism, Hinduism and since the 10th century, Islam. Two morphological characteristics of the Malayo-Polynesian languages is a system of affixation and the reduplication to form new words. Like other Austronesian languages they have small phonemic inventories; thus a text has few but frequent sounds. The majority also lack consonant clusters. Most also have only a small set of vowels, five being a common number.

Definition of Malayo-Polynesian in the English dictionary

The definition of Malayo-Polynesian in the dictionary is of or relating to this family of languages.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

Malatya
Malawi
Malawian
malax
malaxage
malaxation
malaxator
Malay
Malay Archipelago
Malay Peninsula
Malay States
Malaya
Malayalaam
Malayalam
Malayalee
Malayali
Malayan
Malayan monitor
Malaysia
Malaysian

WORDS THAT END LIKE MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

Asian
Austronesian
Bayesian
Cartesian
Ephesian
etesian
Friesian
Hobbesian
Indonesian
Jamesian
Keynesian
magnesian
Melanesian
Micronesian
Milesian
Peloponnesian
Polynesian
Rhodesian
Salesian
Silesian
Southern Rhodesian

Synonyms and antonyms of Malayo-Polynesian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Malayo-Polynesian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

Find out the translation of Malayo-Polynesian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Malayo-Polynesian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Malayo-Polynesian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

马来 - 波利尼西亚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Malayo- polinesia
570 millions of speakers

English

Malayo-Polynesian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Malayo - Polynesian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مالايو - البولينيزية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Малайско - полинезийской
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Malaio- polinésia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মালয়-পলিনেশিয়ান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Malayo -polynésienne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Malayo-Polinesia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Malayo - polynesischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マレー·ポリネシア語族
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

말레이 - 폴리네시아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Malayo-Polinesia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Malayo -Polynesian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மலாய-பாலிநேஷியன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मलयो-पॉलिनेशियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Malayo-Polinezya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Malayo - polinesiana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Malayo - polinezyjski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Малайсько - полинезийской
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Malayo - polinezian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Malayo - Πολυνησίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Malayo - Polinesiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Malayo - Polynesiskt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Malayo - Polynesian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Malayo-Polynesian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MALAYO-POLYNESIAN»

The term «Malayo-Polynesian» is normally little used and occupies the 127.902 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MALAYO-POLYNESIAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Malayo-Polynesian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALAYO-POLYNESIAN»

Discover the use of Malayo-Polynesian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Malayo-Polynesian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to ...
The most telling of these were published in Blust (1982a), where he argues that as Malayo-Polynesian speakers crossed the Wallace Line, which divides the region occupied by placental mammals from the region inhabited by marsupial ...
Darrell T. Tryon, 1995
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2000-2999, Language and literature
MALAY01POLYNESIAN, Periodicals and Transactions 2137 Languages, Malayo -Polynesian, Collections 213S Languages, Malayo-Polynesian, Collected Works 2139 Languages, Malayo-Polynesian, General Kern. J. H. C. Over... île ges ...
Princeton University. Library, 1920
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Classified List ...
„dc ges«l1iedenh¢ van het schrift in (1. indisch. archipel. n. p [18-] . . . . . . . . .213i). 5ll) 2140 Languages, Malayo-Polynesian, Grammar 2141 Languages, Malayo- Polynesian, Lexicography 2142 Languages, Malayo-Polynesian, Literary History  ...
Princeton University. Library, 1920
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Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
In the same way, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian correlates with a later separation that probably began as people fanned out through the Philippines, before moving south toward Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Moluccas. Proto-Austronesian and ...
Peter Bellwood, 2007
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American Anthropology, 1946-1970: Papers from the American ...
Goodenough VOL.57, 1955, 71-83 Despite the wide differences in the social systems which now exist among Malayo-Polynesian societies, Murdock (1948; 1949:228-31, 349-50) offers convincing evidence that they are derived from an ...
Robert F. Murphy, 2002
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Understanding Syntax 2nd Edition
167, 180, 190¥2, 194, 247 Gilbertese (Malayo-Polynesian: Austronesian ¥ Kiribati, Fiji, etc.) 157, 191 Greek (Indo-European ¥ Greek) 45, 61, 84, 116, 164, 180, 208 Greenlandic Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut ¥ Greenland) 192, 195 Gunin/Kwini  ...
Maggie Tallerman, 2014
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Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs ...
According to this classification, the Austronesian language family divides into two major divisions: Formosan and Malayo-Polynesian. Malayo-Polynesian is in turn divided into a Western Malayo-Polynesian subgroup and an even larger and ...
James J. Fox, 2006
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Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching Archaeology, ...
At the western extreme of the western Malayo—Polynesian area lies Acehnese. It has long been recognized that this is an Austronesian language containing Austroasiatic elements. Thurgood (1999) argued that Acehnese is a member of the ...
Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, 2008
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Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, ...
From this, the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages and the Eastern Malayo- Polynesian proto-languages developed. From the latter, the Southern Halmahera Islands and Northeast New Guinea Malayo-Polynesian languages and the ...
Mark Janse, Sijmen Tol, 2003
10
A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification
They were at first not regarded as members of Malayo-Polynesian; their membership in the family came to be accepted only gradually during the second half of the nineteenth century. Hans Conon von der Gabelentz published grammatical ...
Merritt Ruhlen, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MALAYO-POLYNESIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Malayo-Polynesian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Adventures still plentiful for Bellmar graduate Carol Nesti Riley in …
“I continued my teaching career in the Guam schools with a class of students that spoke Chamorro, the Malayo-Polynesian language of that ... «Tribune-Review, May 15»
2
The Great & Beautiful Lost Kingdoms
... such as Mon-Khemer and Malayo-Polynesian, and lived in vastly different cultural worlds adopted suddenly, widely, and long-lastingly a new ... «The New York Review of Books, Apr 15»
3
Riverdale photographer Philip Jessup focuses on three urban …
Years ago, Jessup worked there as a peace corps volunteer and still speaks some Marshallese, a Malayo-Polynesian language. “The republic ... «insideTORONTO.com, Feb 15»
4
Taiwan: A Great Choosing Day is Coming (Part 3)
Respect for difference was also the theme of actions by the Malayo-Polynesian Tao people of Orchid Island, who on more than one occasion ... «The Conversation AU, Nov 14»
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Common links: Taipei to Kaohsiung
About 2% of the population are Malayo-Polynesian peoples who share a common heritage with South-East Asians. And visitors from our part of ... «The Star Online, Sep 14»
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My Fihavanana Malagasy: At Home on the Eighth Continent
... African coast at the Mozambique Channel's narrowest point, the Malagasy language is Malayo-Polynesian in origin, most closely resembling ... «NatGeo News Watch, Aug 14»
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Social cohesion, nation-building and the likelihood of success
Except for the people in Irian Jaya (the western half of the island of New Guinea) who are Melanesian rather than Malayo-Polynesian ... «Daily Maverick, Aug 14»
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Sailing across Indian Ocean, South Pacific by 'balangay'
The Malayo-Polynesian languages, which include Tagalog, are derived from the Austronesian language. The word Austronesian comes from ... «Philippine Star, Aug 14»
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Vietnam, China Maritime Disputes: Time For A Paradigm Shift …
The Kingdom of Champa had an Indianized culture of Malayo-Polynesian origins and controlled what is now the southern and central part of ... «Eurasia Review, Aug 14»
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East Timor: Timothy Mo on hope in the troubled nation
In a Malayo-Polynesian mouth my name sounds like Team-Uh-Tee-More. In obsessive and claustrophobic cell debates Gil and his comrade ... «The Independent, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Malayo-Polynesian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/malayo-polynesian>. Apr 2024 ».
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