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WESTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

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

WESTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN (noun)
  The noun WESTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN has 1 sense:

1. a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languagesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WESTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Western 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 "Western Malayo-Polynesian"):

Malay (a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages)

Filipino; Philippine (official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages)


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