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Sabtu, 15 April 2017
Malayo-Polynesian languages
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 people of the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia. Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam serve as the northwest geographic outlier, going well into the Malay peninsula. On the northern most geographical outlier does not pass beyond the north of Pattani, which is located in southern Thailand. Malagasy is spoken in the island of Madagascar located off the eastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Part of the language family shows a strong influence of Sanskrit and particularly Arabic as the Western part of the region has been a stronghold of Buddhism, Hinduism, and, since the 10th century, Islam.
Two morphological characteristics of the Malayo-Polynesian languages are a system of affixation and the reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word, such as wiki-wiki) to form new words. Like other Austronesian languages they have small phonemic inventories; thus a text has few but frequent sounds.[citation needed] The majority also lack consonant clusters (e.g., [str] in English). Most also have only a small set of vowels, five being a common number
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When will the latest Melayu-Polynesian conference will be held? The last known to me was one in Waitangi. It would be great to know that we're continuously doing this. A Facebook community called #Austronesian is curious of its progress. In the group, we always talk although casually but in the great interest of uniting under the similarities of culture, linguistic and maybe beyond.
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