Malayo-Polynesian languages

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Austronesian subgroup language family branch

Malayo-Polynesian languages are a major branch of the Austronesian language family spoken across Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific, including languages such as Indonesian, Tagalog, Javanese, and Malagasy.

Aliases (8)

Malayo-Polynesian ×18
Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian ×2
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ×2
Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa languages ×1
Barito languages ×1
Malayo-Sumbawan languages ×1
Sunda–Sulawesi languages ×1
Western Malayo-Polynesian languages ×1

Statements (83)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian subgroup → language family branch →
areSpokenBy	Austronesian peoples → Filipino peoples → Javanese people → Malagasy people → Malay peoples → Melanesian peoples → Micronesian peoples → Polynesian peoples →
geneticRelation	Formosan languages →
geographicDistribution	from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east → from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south →
hasAlternativeName	Extra-Formosan languages → Malayo-Polynesian →
hasApproximateNumberOfLanguages	over 1000 →
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers	hundreds of millions →
hasMajorContactLanguage	Arabic → Dutch → English → Portuguese → Sanskrit → Spanish →
hasSubgroup	Bornean languages → Celebic languages → Central Malayo-Polynesian languages → Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages → Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages → Oceanic languages → Philippine languages → South Sulawesi languages → Sunda-Sulawesi languages → Western Malayo-Polynesian languages →
historicalOrigin	Taiwan (Austronesian homeland hypothesis) →
includesLanguage	Balinese language → Bikol language → Cebuano language → Chamorro language → Fijian language → Filipino language → Hawaiian language → Ilocano language → Indonesian language → Javanese language → Madurese language → Malagasy language → Malay language → Maori language → Palauan language → Samoan language → Sundanese language → Tagalog language → Tahitian language → Tongan language →
languageFamily	Austronesian language family →
partOf	Austronesian language family →
spokenIn	Brunei → East Timor → Hawaii → Indonesia → Madagascar → Malaysia → Maritime Southeast Asia → Melanesia → Micronesia → New Zealand → Oceania → Pacific Ocean region → Papua New Guinea → Philippines → Polynesia → Southeast Asia → Taiwan (offshore islands) →
subclassOf	Austronesian languages →
typicalMorphology	agglutinative →
typicalPhonology	small to moderate phoneme inventories →
typicalWordOrder	SVO →
writingSystem	Arabic script (Jawi) → Balinese script (historical) → Baybayin (historical) → Javanese script (historical) → Latin script → Lontara script (historical) →

Referenced by (67)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Batanic languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Bima–Sumba languages → Cook Islands Māori language → Kapampangan language → Modern Javanese ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Nauruan → New Caledonian–Loyalty languages → Rapa Nui language → Southern Luzon languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Waray language ("Malayo-Polynesian") →	languageFamily
Celebic–South Halmahera languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Greater Central Philippine languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Hawaiian ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Indonesian → Madurese → Mangarevan language group → Middle Javanese → Minangkabau → Sasak language group ("Malayo-Polynesian") →	languageBranch
Austronesian languages → Austronesian languages ("Western Malayo-Polynesian languages") → Austronesian languages ("Barito languages") → Austronesian languages ("Bali–Sasak–Sumbawa languages") → Austronesian languages ("Sunda–Sulawesi languages") → Austronesian languages ("Malayo-Sumbawan languages") → Northwest Solomonic languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Tongan language group →	hasSubfamily
Barito languages subgroup → Celebic languages → Celebic–South Halmahera languages → Greater Central Philippine languages → Malayic languages → Samoic–Outlier languages subgroup → South Sulawesi languages → Southern Luzon languages →	partOf
Bikol language → Binisaya ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Cebuano language → Fijian languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Ilonggo ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Malay ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Tagalog ("Malayo-Polynesian") → Tetum →	subfamily
Batanic languages → Carolinean languages → Gorontalo–Mongondow languages → Minahasan languages → Muna–Buton languages → Philippine–Cordilleran languages → Sasak language group →	subclassOf
Bugis → Gela language → Hiligaynon language → Old Malay →	languageSubfamily
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages → Philippine–Cordilleran languages ("Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian") →	branchOf
Modern Javanese ("Proto-Malayo-Polynesian") → Old Malay ("Proto-Malayo-Polynesian") →	hasAncestor
Yapese ("Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian") →	belongsTo
Polynesian languages →	closelyRelatedTo
Meso-Melanesian languages →	geneticAffiliation
Malayo-Polynesian languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") →	hasAlternativeName
South Banda languages subgroup →	hasBranch
Central Pacific languages →	hasHigherLevelFamily
Minahasan languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") →	languageBranchOf
New Caledonian–Loyalty languages ("Malayo-Polynesian") →	macroFamily
Barito languages subgroup ("Malayo-Polynesian") →	typologically