Since the 1970s, Austronesian higher-order subgrouping has often included a Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) node within the larger Malayo-Polynesian (MP) group. WMP includes all Malayo-Polynesian ...

He called them "Malayo-Polynesian." Modern linguists prefer to use the term Austronesia. That discovery of Father Hervas has been called the most brilliant discovery in linguistics.

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 ...

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In our research, we discovered new evidence relating to Malayo-Polynesian’s root. It comes from a special use of the grammatical affix ma in four Indigenous Austronesian languages.

News Published: 26 February 1927 Research Items Nature 119, 332–334 (1927) Cite this article ...

News Published: 06 July 1882 Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics 1 A. H. KEANE Nature 26, 225–226 (1882) Cite this article ...

“I primarily draw on empirical insights from Javanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family spoken by about 70 million people in Indonesia,” Jozina explains. “I have been conducting ...