Malay-Polynesian

Tagalog is a Malay-Polynesian language with lots of Spanish and English words "adopted" into it.

Living in Mexico 2006

I speak Spanish and Cebuano, a Philippine language (Malay-Polynesian family) and I have dabbled with several other languages.

Vale 2006

East Timor is at the crossroads of three major cultures: Melanesian, which binds us to our brothers and sisters of the South Pacific region; Malay-Polynesian binding us to Southeast Asia; and the Latin Catholic influence, a legacy of almost 500 years of Portuguese colonisation.

José Ramos-Horta - Nobel Lecture 1997

Judging by their language these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea like the Malay pirates from whom they themselves subsequently suffered.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

_Chinese_, and the monosyllabic tongues of south-eastern Asia, which possibly are connected lineally with it; the _Japanese_; the _Malay-Polynesian_, a well-developed family; the

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

All were originally from south China, except the Rhade, who were Malay-Polynesian (Pacific Islander).

StrategyPage.com 2009

About 87 languages and dialects are spoken, most belonging to the Malay-Polynesian linguistic family.

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About 87 languages and dialects are spoken, most belonging to the Malay-Polynesian linguistic family.

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About 87 languages and dialects are spoken, most belonging to the Malay-Polynesian linguistic family.

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