Introduction

The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 351 million speakers. These are widely dispersed throughout the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, spoken in the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

_Borneo-Philippines (not shown: Yami in Taiwan)
_Sunda-Sulawesi (not shown: Chamorro)
_Central Malayo-Polynesian
_Halmahera-Geelvink Bay
_the westernmost Oceanic languages?

Language Family Tree

Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian

Languages Sorted Alphabetically