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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 peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippine Archipelago) and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia in the areas near the Malay Peninsula, wi

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Malayo-Polynesian
Geographic
distribution
Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Pacific, Madagascar
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
Proto-languageProto-Malayo-Polynesian
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-5poz
Glottologmala1545
The western sphere of Malayo-Polynesian languages. (The bottom three are Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian)
  Philippine (not shown: Yami in Taiwan)
  other Western Malayo-Polynesian languages (obsolete grouping)
  the westernmost Oceanic languages

The branches of the Oceanic languages:
  Temotu
  Fijian–Polynesian (not shown: Rapa Nui)
Black ovals at the northwestern limit of Micronesia are the non-Oceanic languages Palauan and Chamorro. Black circles within green are offshore Papuan languages.
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