Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as Malay-Polynesian.
Wiktionary
- n. A subgroup of languages of the Austronesian language family, mostly dispersed around the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or pertaining to Malayo-Polynesia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific
- adj. of or relating to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages
Examples
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean
“VietnamVietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)”
“Ethnic groups: Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority”
“Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)”
“Research interests: Malayo-Polynesian linguistics, with particular emphasis on (more ...)”
“Timor-LesteAustronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority”
“Vietnamese (official); English (increasingly favored as a second language); some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)”
“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).”
“The people continued to speak a unique, tongue-twisting Malayo-Polynesian language distantly related to Indonesian.”
“Chamorro is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Guam and the Northern Marianas; for a language spoken by fewer than 100,000 people, it's got an impressive web presence.”
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