All Topics  
Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
 
 
  Topics Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages Topic Home

The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family
Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia....
 that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi
Sulawesi

Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands....
. They are called nuclear
Nuclear

Nuclear may refer to:...
 because they are the geographic core of the family.

Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian is divided into two branches:






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages'
Start a new discussion about 'Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family
Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia....
 that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi
Sulawesi

Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands....
. They are called nuclear
Nuclear

Nuclear may refer to:...
 because they are the geographic core of the family.

Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian is divided into two branches:
  • The Sunda-Sulawesi languages
    Sunda-Sulawesi languages

    The Sunda-Sulawesi languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages posited in Wouk and Ross . They include most of the languages of Sulawesi and the Greater Sunda Islands, as well as a few outliers such as Chamorro language and Palauan language....
     or Inner Hesperonesian (Inner Western Malayo-Polynesian) languages, which include the languages of Sulawesi and the Greater Sunda Islands
    Greater Sunda Islands

    The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of islands within the Malay Archipelago. Islands included in the group are Sumatra, Java , Borneo, Sulawesi and adjacent smaller islands....
    , as well as a few outliers such as Chamorro
    Chamorro language

    It is an agglutinative language, grammatically allowing root words to be modified by an unlimited number of affixes. For example, masanganen?aihon "talked awhile ", passivizing prefix ma-, root verb sangan, directional suffix i "to" with excrescent consonant n, and suffix ?aihon "a short amount of time"....
     and Palauan
    Palauan language

    Palauan is one of the two nationally recognized official languages spoken in the Palau . It is a member of the Austronesian languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian languages group; all others are considered to be members of either the Micronesian languages or Samoic la...
    ; and
  • the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
    Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages

    The family of Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages is a branch of the Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages. It consists of over 700 languages....
    ,     which include the languages to the east (the Lesser Sunda Islands
    Lesser Sunda Islands

    The Nusa Tenggara , or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of Maritime Southeast Asia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands....
    , Halmahera
    Halmahera

    Halmahera is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia.Halmahera has a land area of 17,780 km? and a population in 1995 of 162,728....
    , Moluccas, New Guinea
    New Guinea

    New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
    , and the Pacific).