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    The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages...
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    Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are...
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    Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic and the Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian group of Austronesian languages. The...
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  • Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) languages, also known as the Hesperonesian languages, are a paraphyletic grouping of Austronesian languages that includes...
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    The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. Ross et...
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  • Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993). The...
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  • Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers)...
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  • Urheimat in Taiwan. They speak the Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic subfamily of the Austronesian language family. The Indigenous Māori people...
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    Malayo-Polynesian languages (CMP) are a proposed branch in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The languages are spoken...
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  • Proto-Polynesian (abbreviated PPn) is the hypothetical proto-language from which all the modern Polynesian languages descend. It is a daughter language of...
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    archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers. Polynesians speak languages that descend...
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  • The Tongic languages are a small group of the Polynesian languages. The group consists of at least two languages, Tongan and Niuean, and possibly a third...
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  • verb–subject–object. Tongan is one of the multiple languages in the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, along with Hawaiian, Māori, Samoan and Tahitian...
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    this vast triangle are Polynesian languages, which are classified by linguists as part of the Oceanic subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian. They ultimately derive...
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    Fijian languages Eastern Central Pacific linkage Eastern Fijian languages Polynesian languages Roger Blench (2014) argues that many languages conventionally...
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  • Punan–Müller-Schwaner languages. Additionally, he also excludes Moklenic from GNB and places it all the way up as one of the primary branches of Malayo-Polynesian. Greater...
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  • The Selaru languages are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of...
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  • Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages apart from Polynesian and...
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  • Samoic–Outlier languages, also known as Samoic languages, are a purported group of Polynesian languages, encompassing the Polynesian languages of Samoa, Tuvalu...
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    small and remote, whose inhabitants speak Polynesian languages. These islands are collectively termed the Polynesian "outliers". Their residents generally...
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    Fijians, who were of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian descent and generally spoke languages of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. After the islands...
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    Polynesia (redirect from Polynesian islands)
    incorporated into Polynesian culture. War and slavery disappeared." Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch...
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    distribution[permanent dead link] Languages of the World: The Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family Introduction to Austronesian Languages and Culture (video)...
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  • magareva, IPA: [te re.o ma.ŋa.re.va]; in French mangarévien) is a Polynesian language spoken by about 600 people in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia...
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  • Proto-Polynesian. Proto-Austronesian is reconstructed by constructing sets of correspondences among consonants in the various Austronesian languages, according...
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    (Indonesian), Tagalog (Filipino), and Polynesian languages such as Māori and Hawaiian The various Aboriginal Australian language families, including the large...
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  • tekoi er a Belau) is a Malayo-Polynesian language native to the Republic of Palau, where it is one of the two official languages, alongside English. It is...
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  • The Flores–Lembata languages are a group of related Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Lesser...
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  • peoples Malayo-Polynesian languages Music of Polynesia Polynesian art Polynesian languages For a discussion of the origins of Eastern Polynesians, particularly...
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    The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, a pluricentric...
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