Malayo-Polynesian
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Its people are not African, being predominantly of Malayo-Polynesian stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
The greater part of the population is negroid; the language spoken over the whole of the island and many institutions and customs are Malayo-Polynesian.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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