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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Polynesian_languagesThe Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. While half of them are
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Polynesian languages fall into two branches, Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian. Tongan and Niuean constitute the Tongic branch; all the rest are part of the Nuclear Polynesian branch....
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Written Polynesian languages use orthography based on Latin script. Most Polynesian languages have five vowel qualities, corresponding roughly to those written i, e, a, o, u in
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The Polynesian languages are a group of languages spoken in Oceania. They all belong in the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages. They are mostly spoken in …
- Ethnicity: Polynesian people
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The Polynesian people are considered, by linguistic, archaeological, and human genetic evidence, a subset of the sea-migrating Austronesian people. Tracing Polynesian languages places their prehistoric origins in Island Melanesia, Maritime Southeast Asia, and ultimately, in Taiwan.
Between about 3,000 and 1,000 BCE, speakers of Austronesian languages bega…Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license - https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Category:Polynesian_languages
Category:Polynesian languages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The main article for this category is Polynesian languages. language portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to …
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- The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia in the areas near the Malay Penins...
- Proto-language: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Proto-Polynesian (abbreviated PPn) is the hypothetical proto-language from which all the modern Polynesian languages descend. It is a daughter …
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The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages ( CMP) are a proposed branch in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. [1] [2] The languages are spoken in …
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Polynesian languages, a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia and on a patchwork of outliers Other Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Polynesian (horse), an American …
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The Austronesian languages (/ ˌ ɔː s t r ə ˈ n iː ʒ ən /) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).There are also a …
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Of the approximately 40 or so Polynesian languages still spoken, I only speak two: Gagana Sāmoa, and te reo Māori. If by “simple", you mean to measure ease of learning — neither of …
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