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| Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Indonesia and the Pacific |
| Genetic classification: |
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian |
| Subdivisions: | |
 The principal branches of the Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages: Sunda-Sulawesi is dark red (not shown: Chamorro), Central Malayo-Polynesian is green, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian is purple and pink. The vast majority of Oceanic languages (pink) are off the map. |
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The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi. They are called nuclear because they are the geographic core of the family.
Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian is divided into two branches:
- The Sunda-Sulawesi languages or Inner Hesperonesian (Inner Western Malayo-Polynesian) languages, which include the languages of Sulawesi and the Greater Sunda Islands, as well as a few outliers such as Chamorro and Palauan; and
- the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, which include the languages to the east (the Lesser Sunda Islands, Halmahera, Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Pacific).
References
- Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross (ed.), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems. Australian National University, 2002.
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