EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eastern Malayo-Polynesian mean? 

• EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN (noun)
  The noun EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN has 1 sense:

1. an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages

  Familiarity information: EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic

Hypernyms ("Eastern Malayo-Polynesian" is a kind of...):

Malayo-Polynesian; Polynesian (the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Eastern Malayo-Polynesian"):

Tahitian (the Oceanic language spoken on Tahiti)

Maori (the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand)

Hawaiian (the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii)

Fijian (the Oceanic language spoken on Fiji)