Malayo-Polynesian
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Though situated on an island, they live in a mountainous, thickly wooded area of rain forest, have never seen the sea and have no word for it in their strange Malayo-Polynesian language.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its people are not African, being predominantly of Malayo-Polynesian stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
But one of those subfamilies, termed Malayo-Polynesian, comprises 945 of those 959 languages and covers almost the entire geographic range of the Austronesian family.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The inhabitants of the last-named cluster of islands are, as I have said, the most skilled fishermen of all the Malayo-Polynesian peoples with whom it has been my fortune to have come in contact.
From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis
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