Malayo-Polynesian

[muh-ley-oh-pol-uh-nee-zhuh n, -shuh n]

noun, adjective

Austronesian.

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Historical Examples of malayo-polynesian

Above this, we have a second level of culture, the Malayo-Polynesian.
Elements of Folk Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
It is astonishing how widely this Malayo-Polynesian speech has spread.
A History of the Philippines
David P. Barrows
As compared with Malayo-Polynesian culture, however, it presents an important additional factor.
Elements of Folk Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
The American and the Malayo-Polynesian races form the two last groups.
On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo
Paul Broca
The group belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian race, of which the parent stock seems to have inhabited the region of Annam.
Indo-China and Its Primitive People
Henry Baudesson

British Dictionary definitions for malayo-polynesian

Malayo-Polynesian

noun

Also called: Austronesian a family of languages extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific, including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and PolynesianSee also Austro-Asiatic

adjective

of or relating to this family of languages

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