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A Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is widely dispersed throughout a islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with two or three members spoken in continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier spoken on Madagascar. A Malayo-Polynesian (MP) languages come divided into 2 major subgroups, a American MP & a Central-Eastern MP.

A Malayo-Polynesian languages tend to apply reduplication (repetition of all or even section of a word) to express the plural form, & rather more Austronesian languages have a moo entropy; that is, a text is quite insistent around terms of the frequency of sounds. A majority as well lack consonant bunch (e.g., [str] or even [mpt] around English). Virtually all too use just the microscopic placed of spoken vowels, 5 existence the most common total.

Western

American Malayo-Polynesian has astir 300 million speakers & includes Indonesian, Malay, and Javanese, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Kapampangan, and Waray-Waray, Buginese, Malagasy, Chamorro and many others.

Eastern

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian has deuce traditionnal subgroups: Polynesian and Micronesian. Micronesian includes a languages spoken per native peoples of Micronesia like Gilbertese or Nauruan. Polynesian languages include Hawai'ian, Maori, Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan and Tuvaluan. Tons of the said languages use at times official status in the countries & territories of the Pacific Ocean. Put together it is spoken by astir One million humans.

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