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The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages. They are widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, which is spoken on Madagascar. The Malayo-Polynesian (MP) languages are divided into two major subgroups, the Western MP and the Central-Eastern MP.The Malayo-Polynesian languages tend to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word) to express the plural, and like other Austronesian languages have a low entropy; that is, the text is quite repetitive in terms of the frequency of sounds. The majority also lack consonant clusters (e.g., [str] or [mpt] in English). Most also have only a small set of vowels, five being a common number.
1 Western
Western Malayo-Polynesian has 300 million speakers and includes Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, and Javanese, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, KapampanganKapampangan is one of the languages of the Philippines. The native speakers of Kapampangan are found in the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac. Speakers can also be found in Bataan and Bulacan. Kapampangan is one of the eight major ethno-linguistics groups, and Waray-Waray, Buginese, MalagasyMalagasy is the westernmost member of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Madagascar where it is an official language. It has the highly unusual Verb Object Subject typology. The orthography is comparable to English. i' is always pronounced 'ee',, and many others.
2 Eastern
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian has two subgroups: PolynesianThe Polynesian languages are a group of related languages spoken in the region known as Polynesia. They are generally considered to be a part of the Austronesian language group, belonging to the Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch of that family. There are a and Micronesian . Micronesian includes the languages spoken by the native peoples of Micronesia such as Nauruan, SamaSama or Samal is an Austronesian language in the Sulu Archipelago. Sama is also the Assyrian and Babylonian sun god, see Shamash Sama is also an honorific used in the Japanese language. See the article on honorifics for details. Sama or Sama' (Arabic "lis and ChamorroChamorro or Chamoru is the native language used in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands. Although the English language and Japanese language are commonplace on both Guam, and the Northern Marianas Islands, people still use the Chamorro language. Chamorro has. Polynesian languages include Hawai'ian, Maori, Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan and Tuvaluan. All of the said languages have official status in the countries and territories of the Pacific Ocean. Collectively they are spoken by about 1 million people.
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Southeast Asia
