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MALAYO-POLYNESIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific
Synonyms:
Malayo-Polynesian; Polynesian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Malayo-Polynesian" is a kind of...):
Austronesian; Austronesian language (the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Malayo-Polynesian"):
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic (an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Tongan (the Polynesian language spoken by the Tongan people)
Western Malayo-Polynesian (a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Malayo-Polynesian (the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific)
