Eastern Malayo-polynesian (Noun)
Meaning
An eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The languages of eastern Indonesia, including the languages of the island of New Guinea, belong to the eastern Malayo-Polynesian language family.
- Malayo-Polynesian languages can be broadly classified into western and eastern Malayo-Polynesian, each consisting of multiple languages and subgroups.
- Austronesian languages include both western and eastern Malayo-Polynesian, but researchers disagree on how the different languages and dialects fit together.
- Scholars use various terms for this group of languages, such as the eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch, eastern Indonesian, and other variations.
- In some linguistics classification systems, eastern Malayo-Polynesian refers specifically to a smaller group of languages, and this usage differs among scholars.